Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 4 May 2061 at 14:13.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2061 after 25 days on 3 June 2061 at 06:09.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 758 of Meeus index or 1711 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 58 minutes and it is 58 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 4 hours and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 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 ∠343.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.7°.
2 days since point of apogee on 6 May 2061 at 02:42 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2061 at 12:47 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 317 km (249 988 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 187 km (221 946 mi).
5 days after descending node on 2 May 2061 at 12:29 in ♎ Libra 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 16 May 2061 at 19:55 in ♈ Aries.
At 17:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.372°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.328° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 21 May 2061 at 17:45.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 19 May 2061 at 11:03 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.
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