Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 8 March 2014 at 13:27.
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2014 after 2 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09.
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 ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1930".
Lunation 175 / 1128
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 175 of Meeus index or 1128 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes and it is 45 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠25.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠25.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.9°.
Moon after apogee
2 days since point of apogee on 11 March 2014 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 March 2014 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 402 858 km(250 324 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 706 km(227 239 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 4 March 2014 at 17:45 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 March 2014 at 06:30 in ♎ Libra.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 8 March 2014 at 22:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.084° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.997° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 March 2014 at 07:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 2 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.