Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 May 2059 at 01:29.
Flower Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 20 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1902".
Lunation 733 / 1686
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes and it is 55 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠30°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠30° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon before perigee
13 days since point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo 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 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 363 323 km(225 758 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 831 km(227 938 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.654° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.665° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer.
In 5 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 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.