Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 30 May 2094 at 00:58.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2094 after 25 days on 28 June 2094 at 09:58.
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 ∠1961" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1167 of Meeus index or 2120 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 39 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 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 19 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 ∠74.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:20 about 12 days since last apogee on 21 May 2094 at 19:13 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 18 June 2094 at 13:22 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 367 459 km (228 328 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 951 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 897 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 1 June 2094 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 June 2094 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 June 2094 at 08:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.296° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.310° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 June 2094 at 13:39 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 13 June 2094 at 00:03 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
