Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 2 June 2051 at 02:15.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2051 after 19 days on 24 June 2051 at 06:14.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 635 of Meeus index or 1588 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes and it is 46 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2051. 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 52 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 ∠23.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.2°.
14 days since point of apogee on 21 May 2051 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 363 298 km (225 743 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 806 km (226 680 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 23 May 2051 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2051 at 14:37 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 27 May 2051 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.213° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.227° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 June 2051 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 8 June 2051 at 18:56 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