Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 20 May 2069 at 18:06.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2069 after 13 days on 5 June 2069 at 00:19.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 858 of Meeus index or 1811 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes and it is 51 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 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 33 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 ∠21° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.5°.
3 days since point of perigee on 19 May 2069 at 12:00 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 May 2069 at 17:30 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 372 541 km (231 486 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 336 km (251 864 mi).
2 days after descending node on 19 May 2069 at 15:35 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 June 2069 at 10:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 01:56 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.926°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.943° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 June 2069 at 10:11.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 5 June 2069 at 00:19 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