Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 May 2053 at 23:40.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2053 after 15 days on 1 June 2053 at 11:02.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 659 of Meeus index or 1612 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 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 ∠316.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336.2°.
9 days since point of apogee on 7 May 2053 at 10:56 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2053 at 14:01 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 373 376 km (232 005 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 272 km (223 863 mi).
2 days after descending node on 13 May 2053 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 May 2053 at 04:22 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 6 May 2053 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.351° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.416° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 May 2053 at 10:17 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 18 May 2053 at 03:43 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.
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