Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 19 March 2026 at 01:23.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2026 after 10 days on 2 April 2026 at 02:12.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 324 of Meeus index or 1277 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠307.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:40 about 11 days since last apogee on 10 March 2026 at 13:43 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 7 April 2026 at 08:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 366 858 km (227 955 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 350 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 498 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 17 March 2026 at 15:22 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 March 2026 at 11:34 in ♍ Virgo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 11 March 2026 at 21:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.416° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.371° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2026 at 04:46 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 April 2026 at 02:12 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.
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