Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 7 May 2073 at 06:15.
Flower Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2073 after 7 days on 21 May 2073 at 10:02.
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 ∠1919"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1898".
Lunation 907 / 1860
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 907 of Meeus index or 1860 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 11 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠218.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠218.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250°.
Moon before perigee
9 days since point of apogee on 3 May 2073 at 14:50 in ♓ Pisces 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 19 May 2073 at 08:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 373 586 km(232 136 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 430 km(225 204 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 30 April 2073 at 13:47 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 May 2073 at 21:24 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 11 May 2073 at 06:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.450° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.521° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 May 2073 at 00:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 7 days on 21 May 2073 at 10:02 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.