Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% 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 first ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 May 2044 at 00:16.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2044 after 26 days on 10 June 2044 at 15:16.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 548 of Meeus index or 1501 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 4 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 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 ∠328.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 11:19 about 15 days since last perigee on 29 April 2044 at 18:30 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 28 May 2044 at 00:15 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 736 km (252 113 mi) away from Earth. It is 328 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 973 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 6 May 2044 at 23:24 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 May 2044 at 13:03 in ♓ Pisces.
At 00:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.366°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.322° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 28 May 2044 at 13:39.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 27 May 2044 at 03:39 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
