Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 about ∠6° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2036 after 23 days on 8 June 2036 at 21:02.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 449 of Meeus index or 1402 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 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 ∠292.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 12:41 about 15 days since last perigee on 1 May 2036 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 28 May 2036 at 09:17 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 366 km (251 261 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 042 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 343 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 3 May 2036 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 May 2036 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 14 May 2036 at 05:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.758° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.831° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2036 at 03:06 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 25 May 2036 at 19:17 in ♉ Taurus 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