Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 30 March 2010 at 02:25.
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2010 after 24 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1816"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1918".
Lunation 126 / 1079
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 126 of Meeus index or 1079 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes and it is 2 hours and 53 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠215.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠215.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠247.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days since point of perigee on 28 March 2010 at 04:56 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 April 2010 at 02:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 394 628 km(245 210 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 999 km(251 655 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 24 March 2010 at 13:05 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 April 2010 at 09:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 05:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.311°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.182° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 18 April 2010 at 17:15.
In 10 days on 14 April 2010 at 12:29 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.