Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 6 May 2086 at 10:26.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2086 after 17 days on 28 May 2086 at 12:35.
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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1067 of Meeus index or 2020 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes and it is 43 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2086. 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠18.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 10 May 2086 at 18:33 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 22 May 2086 at 15:25 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 366 255 km (227 580 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 729 km (251 487 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 1 May 2086 at 17:00 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 May 2086 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 2 May 2086 at 01:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.482° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.466° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 May 2086 at 20:32 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 13 May 2086 at 01:41 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