Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 18 May 2034 at 03:12.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2034 after 13 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54.
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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 425 of Meeus index or 1378 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 13 minutes and it is 36 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2034. 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 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 38 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 ∠9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 17 May 2034 at 14:28 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 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 May 2034 at 11:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 366 742 km (227 883 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 002 km (252 278 mi).
5 days after descending node on 14 May 2034 at 10:17 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 May 2034 at 04:57 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 7 May 2034 at 09:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.290° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.340° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 May 2034 at 06:51 in ♊ Gemini.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54 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.
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