Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 8 May 2039 at 11:20.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2039 after 25 days on 6 June 2039 at 18:48.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 486 of Meeus index or 1439 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 3 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2039. 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 3 hours and 19 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 44 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 ∠151.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠176.2°.
3 days since point of perigee on 9 May 2039 at 01:48 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 May 2039 at 12:06 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 368 189 km (228 782 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 489 km (252 581 mi).
1 day after descending node on 10 May 2039 at 18:11 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 May 2039 at 18:40 in ♊ Gemini.
At 01:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.653°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.699° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 May 2039 at 10:06.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 23 May 2039 at 01:38 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