Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2093 after 26 days on 9 June 2093 at 10:09.
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 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1154 of Meeus index or 2107 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 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 ∠109.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠142°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:53 about 11 days since last apogee on 1 May 2093 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 28 May 2093 at 21:26 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 362 526 km (225 263 mi) away from Earth. It is 18 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 830 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 2 May 2093 at 12:02 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 May 2093 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 1 May 2093 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.429° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.516° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2093 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 25 May 2093 at 06:07 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