Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 24 May 2053 at 18:04.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2053 after 5 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 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 660 of Meeus index or 1613 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 8 minutes and it is 33 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 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 33 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 ∠336.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.
6 days since point of perigee on 19 May 2053 at 14:01 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 June 2053 at 22:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 380 051 km (236 153 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 060 km (252 314 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 04:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 June 2053 at 18:30 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 20 May 2053 at 10:17 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.416° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.483° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 June 2053 at 04:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 04:22 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 5 days on 1 June 2053 at 11:02 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