Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 11 May 2074 at 02:17.
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2074 after 25 days on 9 June 2074 at 09:27.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1935"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1898".
Lunation 919 / 1872
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 919 of Meeus index or 1872 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 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 3 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠170.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
Moon after perigee
3 days since point of perigee on 11 May 2074 at 01:01 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 May 2074 at 11:59 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 370 496 km(230 216 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 578 km(252 636 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 3 May 2074 at 18:36 in ♌ Leo 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 16 May 2074 at 05:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 10:18 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.864°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.959° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 28 May 2074 at 22:31.
In 11 days on 25 May 2074 at 22:44 in ♉ Taurus 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.