Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 19 May 2061 at 11:03.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2061 after 10 days on 3 June 2061 at 06:09.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 759 of Meeus index or 1712 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute and it is 7 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2061. 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠358.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.9°.
3 days since point of perigee on 19 May 2061 at 12:47 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 June 2061 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 372 064 km (231 190 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 301 km (252 464 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 16 May 2061 at 19:55 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 May 2061 at 16:23 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 21 May 2061 at 17:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.328° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.272° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 June 2061 at 22:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 3 June 2061 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius 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