Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 about ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 16 May 2045 at 18:26.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 10 days on 30 May 2045 at 17:52.
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 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 561 of Meeus index or 1514 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 3 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 ∠305.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:22 about 12 days since last apogee on 8 May 2045 at 09:24 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 June 2045 at 03:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 367 210 km (228 174 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 702 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 146 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 9 May 2045 at 21:30 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 May 2045 at 02:17 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 18 May 2045 at 18:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.745° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.697° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 May 2045 at 22:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 30 May 2045 at 17:52 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