Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% 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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 13 May 2067 at 07:20.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2067 after 10 days on 28 May 2067 at 18:42.
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 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 833 of Meeus index or 1786 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 27 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 ∠98.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠132.6°.
14 days since point of perigee on 4 May 2067 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 May 2067 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 405 217 km (251 790 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 564 km (251 384 mi).
2 days after descending node on 15 May 2067 at 12:44 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 May 2067 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 15 May 2067 at 07:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.108° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.107° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 May 2067 at 12:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 28 May 2067 at 18:42 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