Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 35% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 16 March 2001 at 20:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2001 after 20 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 14 of Meeus index or 967 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 55 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 4 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 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 ∠202.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232.3°.
10 days since point of perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 March 2001 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 403 020 km (250 425 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 473 km (251 949 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 04:58 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 April 2001 at 09:01 in ♋ Cancer.
At 03:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.857°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.007° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 1 April 2001 at 10:45.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 25 March 2001 at 01:21 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