Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 8 May 2077 at 02:23.
Flower Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2077 after 28 days on 6 June 2077 at 15:07.
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 ∠1843"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1900".
Lunation 956 / 1909
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 956 of Meeus index or 1909 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes and it is 59 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 3 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠28°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.2°.
Moon after apogee
6 days since point of apogee on 3 May 2077 at 00:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 May 2077 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 389 020 km(241 726 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 235 km(227 568 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 15:33 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 May 2077 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 27 April 2077 at 12:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.782° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.829° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 May 2077 at 02:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 12 days on 22 May 2077 at 02:38 in ♊ Gemini 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.