Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 May 2040 at 11:47.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2040 after 26 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 28 May 2040 at 02:22 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 June 2040 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 313 km (225 752 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 115 km (252 348 mi).
3 days after descending node on 26 May 2040 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 June 2040 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2040 at 18:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.181° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.166° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2040 at 10:37 in ♋ Cancer.
17 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 11 days on 9 June 2040 at 18:03 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