Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 16 March 2001 at 20:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2001 after 19 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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 24 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°.
11 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 404 726 km (251 485 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).
1 day after descending node on 18 March 2001 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn 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 1 April 2001 at 09:01 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2001 at 03:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.857° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.007° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 April 2001 at 10:45 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 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