Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 4 June 2010 at 22:13.
Strawberry Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2010 after 19 days on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1891".
Lunation 128 / 1081
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠282.4°
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°.
Moon after apogee
2 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2010 at 16:50 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 401 208 km(249 299 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 937 km(227 383 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 30 May 2010 at 18:07 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2010 at 21:54 in ♋ Cancer.
8 days 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.030° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 June 2010 at 07:06 in ♊ Gemini.
In 5 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.