Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% 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 ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 12 May 2044 at 00:16.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2044 after 25 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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1897".
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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 15 May 2044 at 11:19 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 May 2044 at 00:15 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 626 km (251 423 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 408 km (222 704 mi).
9 days after descending node on 6 May 2044 at 23:24 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 May 2044 at 13:03 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 May 2044 at 00:44 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.366° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.322° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2044 at 13:39 in ♊ Gemini.
22 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 10 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