Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 19 May 2082 at 12:58.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2082 after 19 days on 10 June 2082 at 17:55.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1018 of Meeus index or 1971 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠203.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠231.3°.
11 days since point of perigee on 11 May 2082 at 00:30 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 May 2082 at 04:39 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 405 066 km (251 696 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 425 km (251 919 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 19 May 2082 at 18:38 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 June 2082 at 02:08 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 14 May 2082 at 17:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.907° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.839° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2082 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 27 May 2082 at 16:47 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.
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