Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Flower Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2072 after 13 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18.
Spring tide
There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1896".
New lunation 895 / 1848
At 00:18 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 895 of Meeus index or lunation 1848 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the next 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 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠285°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠285° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.
Moon before perigee
7 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 May 2072 at 23:46 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 381 127 km(236 821 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 656 km(229 694 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 12 May 2072 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 May 2072 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo.
12 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.609° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 May 2072 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini.