Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 13 March 2015 at 17:48.
Pink Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2015 after 19 days on 4 April 2015 at 12:06.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1929".
Lunation 187 / 1140
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 187 of Meeus index or 1140 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 49 minutes and it is 28 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠354.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠354.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.9°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 5 March 2015 at 07:35 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 March 2015 at 19:38 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 367 897 km(228 601 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 584 km(222 192 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 7 March 2015 at 21:04 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 March 2015 at 02:19 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 14 March 2015 at 01:39 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.262° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.241° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 March 2015 at 14:29 in ♊ Gemini.
In 3 days on 20 March 2015 at 09:36 in ♓ Pisces 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.