Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 May 2048 at 18:57.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2048 after 27 days on 26 June 2048 at 02:08.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 598 of Meeus index or 1551 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 52 minutes and it is 38 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2048. 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 3 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠163° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 27 May 2048 at 23:56 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 June 2048 at 20:20 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 364 352 km (226 398 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 480 km (252 575 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 03:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 12 June 2048 at 01:40 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2048 at 12:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.749° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.745° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2048 at 06:28 in ♊ Gemini.
At 03:20 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 13 days on 11 June 2048 at 12:50 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