Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 29 March 2023 at 02:32.
Pink Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2023 after 1 day on 6 April 2023 at 04:35.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1918".
Lunation 287 / 1240
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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 after apogee
4 days since point of apogee on 31 March 2023 at 11:18 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 April 2023 at 02:22 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 398 746 km(247 769 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 967 km(228 644 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 24 March 2023 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 April 2023 at 13:51 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 28 March 2023 at 21:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.898° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.947° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 April 2023 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 1 day 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.