Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 May 2025 at 03:02.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2025 after 13 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 314 of Meeus index or 1267 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2025. 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 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 ∠17.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
2 days since point of perigee on 26 May 2025 at 01:37 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 369 854 km (229 817 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 553 km (251 999 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 22 May 2025 at 08:05 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 June 2025 at 01:33 in ♍ Virgo.
At 16:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.442°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.394° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 June 2025 at 23:54.
6 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 13 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44 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