Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 28 May 2063 at 01:47.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2063 after 12 days on 11 June 2063 at 00:43.
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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 784 of Meeus index or 1737 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 4 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 ∠301.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
9 days since point of apogee on 19 May 2063 at 21:24 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 June 2063 at 01:18 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 372 084 km (231 202 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 758 km (228 514 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 21 May 2063 at 05:36 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 June 2063 at 11:31 in ♍ Virgo.
At 11:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.118°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.086° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 June 2063 at 12:30.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 11 June 2063 at 00:43 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