Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 28 March 2017 at 02:57.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2017 after 11 days on 11 April 2017 at 06:08.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 213 of Meeus index or 1166 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠321.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:39 about 11 days since last apogee on 18 March 2017 at 17:25 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 15 April 2017 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 363 855 km (226 089 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 347 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 501 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 25 March 2017 at 15:41 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 April 2017 at 09:14 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 21 March 2017 at 05:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.912° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.984° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2017 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 11 April 2017 at 06:08 in ♎ Libra 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.
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