Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 20 May 2088 at 18:49.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2088 after 11 days on 4 June 2088 at 08:08.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1093 of Meeus index or 2046 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer 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 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 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 ∠348.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.5°.
2 days since point of perigee on 21 May 2088 at 11:25 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 June 2088 at 01:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 364 548 km (226 520 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 311 km (252 470 mi).
4 days after descending node on 19 May 2088 at 04:20 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 June 2088 at 03:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 May 2088 at 03:13 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.414° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.441° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 June 2088 at 21:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 4 June 2088 at 08:08 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