Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 28 March 2021 at 18:48.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2021 after 27 days on 27 April 2021 at 03:31.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 262 of Meeus index or 1215 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes and it is 19 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes 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 ∠124.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:12 about 12 days since last apogee on 18 March 2021 at 05:04 in ♉ Taurus 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 14 April 2021 at 17:47 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 360 311 km (223 887 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 197 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 045 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 20 March 2021 at 03:31 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2021 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 22 March 2021 at 08:35 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.307° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.412° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 April 2021 at 02:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 12 April 2021 at 02:31 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.
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