Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 2 April 2024 at 03:15.
Pink Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2024 after 19 days on 23 April 2024 at 23:49.
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 ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1918".
Lunation 299 / 1252
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 299 of Meeus index or 1252 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠1.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠1.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.2°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 23 March 2024 at 15:44 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 April 2024 at 17:53 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 366 606 km(227 798 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 850 km(222 979 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 26 March 2024 at 04:07 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 April 2024 at 12:20 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 1 April 2024 at 08:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.559° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.552° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 April 2024 at 22:36 in ♊ Gemini.
In 4 days on 8 April 2024 at 18:21 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.