Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 March 2090 at 22:55.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2090 after 17 days on 14 April 2090 at 09:22.
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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1115 of Meeus index or 2068 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 45 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 ∠188.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 18:35 about 12 days since last perigee on 15 March 2090 at 05:23 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 12 April 2090 at 12:39 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 032 km (252 297 mi) away from Earth. It is 624 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 677 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 16 March 2090 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo 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 30 March 2090 at 05:59 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 22 March 2090 at 18:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.136° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.167° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 April 2090 at 10:07 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 31 March 2090 at 03:48 in ♈ Aries 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
