Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 about ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 21 May 2054 at 15:16.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2054 after 22 days on 20 June 2054 at 03:42.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 672 of Meeus index or 1625 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 40 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 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 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 5 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 ∠288.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠316.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 00:43 about 14 days since last perigee on 13 May 2054 at 03:26 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 8 June 2054 at 21:43 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 285 km (251 211 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 123 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 424 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
13 days after ascending node on 15 May 2054 at 06:44 in ♍ Virgo 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 29 May 2054 at 02:37 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 24 May 2054 at 11:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.115° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.164° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 June 2054 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 6 June 2054 at 02:40 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