Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing about ∠15° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 18 May 2072 at 00:18.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2072 after 8 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 895 of Meeus index or 1848 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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°).
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.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠285° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:46 about 13 days since last apogee on 10 May 2072 at 17:48 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 7 June 2072 at 12:42 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 369 656 km (229 694 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 148 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 700 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 12 May 2072 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 May 2072 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 20 May 2072 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.609° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.669° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 June 2072 at 16:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18 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