Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 May 2007 at 04:27.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 16 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 90 of Meeus index or 1043 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:10 about 15 days since last apogee on 30 April 2007 at 10:57 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 27 May 2007 at 22:01 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 359 393 km (223 316 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 115 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 963 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 11 May 2007 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 May 2007 at 17:16 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 6 May 2007 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.341° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.287° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2007 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 16 May 2007 at 19:27 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov