Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 21 March 2023 at 17:23.
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2023 after 8 days on 6 April 2023 at 04:35.
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 ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1922".
Lunation 287 / 1240
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 287 of Meeus index or 1240 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes and it is 52 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠34.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠34.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠59.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days since point of perigee on 19 March 2023 at 15:16 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 March 2023 at 11:18 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 400 495 km(248 856 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 921 km(251 606 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 24 March 2023 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus 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 7 April 2023 at 13:51 in ♎ Libra.
At 21:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.898°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.947° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 12 April 2023 at 03:15.
In 8 days on 6 April 2023 at 04:35 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.