Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% 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 ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 26 May 2097 at 03:36.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2097 after 25 days on 24 June 2097 at 19:03.
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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" 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 1204 of Meeus index or 2157 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes and it is 50 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 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 ∠339.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.1°.
2 days since point of apogee on 28 May 2097 at 05:57 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 June 2097 at 09:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 489 km (250 095 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 390 km (222 072 mi).
6 days after descending node on 24 May 2097 at 05:04 in ♏ Scorpio 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 7 June 2097 at 13:23 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2097 at 19:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.488° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.467° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2097 at 04:55 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 10 June 2097 at 02:13 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