Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 3 May 2076 at 04:51.
Flower Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2076 after 10 days on 18 May 2076 at 17:38.
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 ∠1774"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1900".
Lunation 944 / 1897
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 944 of Meeus index or 1897 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠78.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠78.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.1°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 26 April 2076 at 16:30 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 May 2076 at 07:16 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 031 km(251 053 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 248 km(251 188 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 6 May 2076 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 May 2076 at 16:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 7 May 2076 at 18:28 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.265° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.310° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 May 2076 at 17:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 10 days on 18 May 2076 at 17:38 in ♏ Scorpio 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.