Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 13 May 2086 at 01:41.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2086 after 14 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 0% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1897" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1068 of Meeus index or 2021 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 3 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 56 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 ∠37.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠62.5°.
3 days 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 May 2086 at 15:25 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 377 777 km (234 740 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 729 km (251 487 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 12:33 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 28 May 2086 at 23:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 20:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.466°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.458° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 29 May 2086 at 07:36.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 28 May 2086 at 12:35 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