Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠18° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2036 after 22 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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 21 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 May 2036 at 09:17 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 833 km (251 552 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 390 km (226 421 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 18:30 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 30 May 2036 at 22:23 in ♌ Leo.
3 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 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.831° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2036 at 03:06 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 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