Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 37% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 20 May 2044 at 04:02.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2044 after 20 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 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
6 days 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 May 2044 at 00:15 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 387 962 km (241 068 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 408 km (222 704 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 13:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 June 2044 at 00:16 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days 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 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.322° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2044 at 13:39 in ♊ Gemini.
At 13:03 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 5 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