Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 4 June 2046 at 15:22.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2046 after 13 days on 18 June 2046 at 13:10.
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 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 574 of Meeus index or 1527 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 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 ∠274° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.9°.
7 days since point of apogee on 28 May 2046 at 21:55 in ♓ Pisces 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 12 June 2046 at 03:54 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 382 242 km (237 514 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 663 km (229 698 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 25 May 2046 at 04:58 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 8 June 2046 at 09:42 in ♌ Leo.
At 05:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.677°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.680° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 June 2046 at 02:43.
11 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 13 days on 18 June 2046 at 13:10 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