Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% 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 ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 2 June 2070 at 01:26.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2070 after 19 days on 23 June 2070 at 16:57.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1932" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 870 of Meeus index or 1823 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes and it is 26 minutes longer 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 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 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 ∠350.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.3°.
10 days since point of apogee on 25 May 2070 at 10:55 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 June 2070 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 371 089 km (230 584 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 376 km (222 063 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 21 May 2070 at 18:54 in ♎ Libra 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 5 June 2070 at 03:55 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 26 May 2070 at 17:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.834° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.846° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 June 2070 at 03:14 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 8 June 2070 at 18:24 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