Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 1 March 2052 at 07:36.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2052 after 10 days on 15 March 2052 at 09:54.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 645 of Meeus index or 1598 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 1 hour and 57 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠314.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:33 about 11 days since last apogee on 21 February 2052 at 10:01 in ♏ Scorpio 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 20 March 2052 at 04:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 365 498 km (227 110 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 990 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 858 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 3 March 2052 at 14:47 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 March 2052 at 22:32 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 24 February 2052 at 14:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.455° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.384° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 March 2052 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 15 March 2052 at 09:54 in ♍ Virgo 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
