Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 17 May 2087 at 15:55.
Flower Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2087 after 27 days on 16 June 2087 at 06:58.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1791"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" and ∠1896".
Lunation 1080 / 2033
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1080 of Meeus index or 2033 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes and it is 4 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2087. 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠3.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19°.
Moon after apogee
3 days since point of apogee on 15 May 2087 at 19:24 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 May 2087 at 22:29 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 400 231 km(248 692 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 346 km(223 287 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 17 May 2087 at 11:58 in ♏ Scorpio 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 31 May 2087 at 00:23 in ♊ Gemini.
At 11:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.798°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.809° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 1 June 2087 at 14:09.
In 12 days on 1 June 2087 at 01:38 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.