Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 16 May 2028 at 10:43.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2028 after 15 days on 7 June 2028 at 06:09.
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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 350 of Meeus index or 1303 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 18 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 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 ∠243.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.2°.
5 days since point of apogee on 17 May 2028 at 09:55 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 May 2028 at 06:18 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 393 732 km (244 654 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 758 km (229 757 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 13 May 2028 at 20:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 May 2028 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 11 May 2028 at 03:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.961° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.917° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 May 2028 at 14:09 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 24 May 2028 at 08:16 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