Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 3 June 2025 at 03:41.
Strawberry Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2025 after 4 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 ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1891".
Lunation 314 / 1267
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠17.8°
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°.
Moon before apogee
11 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 745 km(251 497 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 553 km(251 999 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 4 June 2025 at 01:33 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 June 2025 at 09:41 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 28 May 2025 at 16:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.442° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.394° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 June 2025 at 23:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 4 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.