Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 March 2020 at 17:48.
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2020 after 27 days on 8 April 2020 at 02:35.
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 ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1931".
Lunation 249 / 1202
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 249 of Meeus index or 1202 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes and it is 58 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2020. 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠152.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠152.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠177.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 10 March 2020 at 06:33 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 March 2020 at 15:23 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 363 618 km(225 942 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 690 km(252 705 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 4 March 2020 at 14:58 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2020 at 01:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 5 March 2020 at 01:34 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.441° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.540° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 March 2020 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 12 days on 24 March 2020 at 09:28 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.