Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 10 May 2072 at 03:17.
Flower Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2072 after 18 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1898".
Lunation 894 / 1847
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 894 of Meeus index or 1847 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠250.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠250.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠285°.
Moon after apogee
2 days since point of apogee on 10 May 2072 at 17:48 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 May 2072 at 23:46 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 401 844 km(249 694 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 656 km(229 694 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 12 May 2072 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 May 2072 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 6 May 2072 at 07:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.526° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.609° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 May 2072 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini.
In 4 days on 18 May 2072 at 00:18 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.