Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 20 May 2025 at 11:59.
Strawberry Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2025 after 16 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44.
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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1894".
Lunation 313 / 1266
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 313 of Meeus index or 1266 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 31 minutes and it is 2 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠2.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠2.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.8°.
Moon before perigee
14 days since point of apogee on 11 May 2025 at 00:49 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2025 at 01:37 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 363 369 km(225 787 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 023 km(223 087 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 22 May 2025 at 08:05 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 4 June 2025 at 01:33 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 15 May 2025 at 18:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.484° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.442° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2025 at 16:16 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 27 May 2025 at 03:02 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.