Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 15 May 2077 at 09:26.
Strawberry Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2077 after 18 days on 6 June 2077 at 15:07.
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 ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1896".
Lunation 956 / 1909
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 18 May 2077 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 May 2077 at 18:38 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 366 244 km(227 573 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 357 km(251 256 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 9 May 2077 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 May 2077 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 12 May 2077 at 02:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.829° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.836° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 May 2077 at 22:23 in ♋ Cancer.
In 2 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.