Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 5 May 2048 at 02:22.
Flower Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2048 after 16 days on 27 May 2048 at 18:57.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1786"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1899".
Lunation 597 / 1550
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 597 of Meeus index or 1550 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 38 minutes and it is 14 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠135.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠135.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 29 April 2048 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 May 2048 at 17:19 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 401 375 km(249 403 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 299 km(252 462 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 1 May 2048 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 May 2048 at 20:07 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 1 May 2048 at 02:39 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.803° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.751° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2048 at 00:49 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 12 May 2048 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus 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.