Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 passing about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 8 June 2032 at 01:32.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2032 after 9 days on 23 June 2032 at 11:32.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 401 of Meeus index or 1354 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 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 ∠108.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 16:28 about 15 days since last perigee on 29 May 2032 at 02:49 in ♒ Aquarius 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 25 June 2032 at 14:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 843 km (251 558 mi) away from Earth. It is 565 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 866 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 5 June 2032 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 June 2032 at 13:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 8 June 2032 at 07:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.688° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.677° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 June 2032 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 23 June 2032 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn 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