Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 about ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 22 May 2077 at 02:38.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2077 after 14 days on 6 June 2077 at 15:07.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 957 of Meeus index or 1910 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 17 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠50.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.3°.
4 days 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 May 2077 at 18:38 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 382 466 km (237 653 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 357 km (251 256 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 22 May 2077 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2077 at 23:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠25.836° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 May 2077 at 22:23 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 6 June 2077 at 15:07 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