Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 15 May 2060 at 13:39.
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2060 after 25 days on 14 June 2060 at 03:37.
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 ∠1858"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1858" and ∠1896".
Lunation 746 / 1699
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 746 of Meeus index or 1699 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 13 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2060. 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 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠13.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠13.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.3°.
Moon after apogee
7 days since point of apogee on 12 May 2060 at 04:06 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 May 2060 at 20:38 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 385 693 km(239 659 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 061 km(224 974 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 14 May 2060 at 03:03 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 May 2060 at 15:43 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 May 2060 at 20:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.700° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.668° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 May 2060 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini.
In 10 days on 29 May 2060 at 18:23 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.