Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 28 May 2067 at 18:42.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2067 after 27 days on 27 June 2067 at 02:52.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
11 days since point of apogee on 19 May 2067 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 May 2067 at 07:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 366 586 km (227 786 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 053 km (226 212 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 29 May 2067 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 June 2067 at 19:56 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 May 2067 at 12:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.107° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.109° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2067 at 14:57 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 11 June 2067 at 20:41 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