Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% 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 about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 23 May 2062 at 07:03.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2062 after 25 days on 21 June 2062 at 21:43.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 771 of Meeus index or 1724 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 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 ∠325.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 00:01 about 15 days since last perigee on 11 May 2062 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 8 June 2062 at 10:43 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 405 628 km (252 046 mi) away from Earth. It is 220 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 081 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 18 May 2062 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo 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 1 June 2062 at 21:30 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 May 2062 at 13:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.459° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.432° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 June 2062 at 07:41 in ♊ Gemini.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 7 June 2062 at 11:12 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.
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