Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 27 May 2010 at 23:07.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2010 after 26 days on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 128 of Meeus index or 1081 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 35 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 ∠282.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠311.3°.
10 days since point of perigee on 20 May 2010 at 08:38 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 June 2010 at 16:50 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 397 729 km (247 137 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 266 km (251 199 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 18:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 13 June 2010 at 21:54 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2010 at 22:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.029° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.030° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 June 2010 at 07:06 in ♊ Gemini.
At 18:07 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 12 June 2010 at 11:15 in ♊ Gemini 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