Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% 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 passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 24 May 2066 at 03:38.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2066 after 12 days on 8 June 2066 at 02:31.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 821 of Meeus index or 1774 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 37 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2066. 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 2 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠160.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:49 about 15 days since last perigee on 11 May 2066 at 01:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 8 June 2066 at 10:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 227 km (252 418 mi) away from Earth. It is 819 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 482 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
13 days after ascending node on 13 May 2066 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 May 2066 at 04:17 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 25 May 2066 at 11:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.714° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.723° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 June 2066 at 04:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 8 June 2066 at 02:31 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