Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 24 May 2068 at 08:00.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2068 after 20 days on 15 June 2068 at 17:00.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 845 of Meeus index or 1798 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 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 ∠39.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠66°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:16 about 15 days since last apogee on 11 May 2068 at 03:18 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 7 June 2068 at 22:05 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 368 748 km (229 129 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 240 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 608 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 17 May 2068 at 14:48 in ♏ Scorpio 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 30 May 2068 at 13:21 in ♉ Taurus.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 18 May 2068 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.444° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.451° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 May 2068 at 17:47 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 31 May 2068 at 04:03 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