Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 25% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 11 May 2040 at 03:28.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2040 after 9 days on 26 May 2040 at 11:47.
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 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 499 of Meeus index or 1452 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 35 minutes and it is 37 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 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 12 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 ∠122.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:01 about 15 days since last perigee on 30 April 2040 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 2040 at 02:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 171 km (251 762 mi) away from Earth. It is 237 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 538 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 12 May 2040 at 04:05 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 May 2040 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 May 2040 at 03:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.185° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.181° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 May 2040 at 18:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 26 May 2040 at 11:47 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