Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠7° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 4 June 2029 at 01:19.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2029 after 17 days on 26 June 2029 at 03:22.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 363 of Meeus index or 1316 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 7 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 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠213.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 June 2029 at 22:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 June 2029 at 15:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 616 km (251 417 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 596 km (227 792 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 29 May 2029 at 17:34 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2029 at 04:49 in ♋ Cancer.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2029 at 14:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.396° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.392° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2029 at 22:05 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 12 June 2029 at 03:51 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