Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 3 May 2057 at 16:32.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2057 after 11 days on 18 May 2057 at 19:02.
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 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 709 of Meeus index or 1662 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2057. 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 2 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 8 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 ∠148.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.3°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 May 2057 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2057 at 12:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 405 054 km (251 689 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 926 km (222 405 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 22:16 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 21 May 2057 at 03:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 24 April 2057 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.505° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.611° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 May 2057 at 14:10 in ♋ Cancer.
At 22:16 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 11 days on 18 May 2057 at 19:02 in ♏ Scorpio 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