Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 18 March 2066 at 19:25.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2066 after 18 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.
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 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 818 of Meeus index or 1771 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes and it is 53 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 24 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 ∠61.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
5 days since point of perigee on 16 March 2066 at 19:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 April 2066 at 02:53 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 373 621 km (232 157 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 532 km (251 365 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 19 March 2066 at 23:41 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2066 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2066 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.141° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.009° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 March 2066 at 23:06 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 25 March 2066 at 22:13 in ♓ Pisces 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
