Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 3 June 2008 at 19:23.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2008 after 13 days on 18 June 2008 at 17:30.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 104 of Meeus index or 1057 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 56 minutes and it is 58 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2008. 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 5 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 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 ∠4.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 3 June 2008 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 June 2008 at 17:33 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 366 200 km (227 546 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 229 km (252 419 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 26 May 2008 at 21:45 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 June 2008 at 09:15 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 June 2008 at 11:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.527° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.510° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 June 2008 at 09:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 18 June 2008 at 17:30 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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