Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 14 March 2019 at 10:27.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2019 after 1 day on 21 March 2019 at 01:43.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 237 of Meeus index or 1190 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 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 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours 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 ∠200.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:47 about 15 days since last apogee on 4 March 2019 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 1 April 2019 at 00:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 359 381 km (223 309 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 127 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 975 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 16 March 2019 at 16:22 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2019 at 13:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 15 March 2019 at 17:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.761° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.863° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2019 at 13:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 21 March 2019 at 01:43 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