Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 37% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing first ∠0° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 29 May 2041 at 22:56.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2041 after 8 days on 14 June 2041 at 10:59.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 512 of Meeus index or 1465 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 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 ∠88.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:34 about 14 days since last perigee on 22 May 2041 at 01:18 in ♒ Aquarius 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 17 June 2041 at 11:48 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 429 km (251 301 mi) away from Earth. It is 979 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 280 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 28 May 2041 at 04:17 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 June 2041 at 14:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 June 2041 at 03:42 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.334° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.308° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 June 2041 at 09:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 14 June 2041 at 10:59 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