Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 26 May 2080 at 02:03.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2080 after 4 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 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 994 of Meeus index or 1947 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 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 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 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 ∠323.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.5°.
7 days since point of perigee on 21 May 2080 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 June 2080 at 12:37 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 382 059 km (237 400 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 518 km (251 977 mi).
1 day after descending node on 28 May 2080 at 17:05 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 June 2080 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 21 May 2080 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.443° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.386° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 June 2080 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 2 June 2080 at 13:45 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