Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 first ∠0° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 25 May 2074 at 22:44.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2074 after 9 days on 9 June 2074 at 09:27.
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 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 920 of Meeus index or 1873 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠193.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.8°.
6 days since point of apogee on 24 May 2074 at 11:59 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 June 2074 at 10:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 391 230 km (243 099 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 517 km (222 772 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 19:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 12 June 2074 at 10:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 28 May 2074 at 22:31 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.959° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.986° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 June 2074 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 19:46 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 9 days on 9 June 2074 at 09:27 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