Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 20 May 2027 at 10:59.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2027 after 24 days on 19 June 2027 at 00:44.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 338 of Meeus index or 1291 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 20 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 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 7 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 ∠308.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 15:13 about 15 days since last perigee on 9 May 2027 at 20:07 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 6 June 2027 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 801 km (251 532 mi) away from Earth. It is 607 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 908 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 12 May 2027 at 17:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 May 2027 at 15:22 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 22 May 2027 at 08:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.162° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.143° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 June 2027 at 10:02 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 4 June 2027 at 19:40 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