Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 12 May 2080 at 01:11.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2080 after 18 days on 2 June 2080 at 13:45.
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 ∠1838" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 993 of Meeus index or 1946 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 13 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 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 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 ∠298.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.1°.
5 days since point of apogee on 9 May 2080 at 21:01 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 May 2080 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 390 015 km (242 344 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 382 km (225 795 mi).
13 days after descending node on 1 May 2080 at 13:38 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 May 2080 at 00:50 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 7 May 2080 at 20:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.498° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.443° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 May 2080 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 19 May 2080 at 10:56 in ♉ Taurus 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.
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