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 about ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 March 2030 at 17:56.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2030 after 27 days on 18 April 2030 at 03:20.
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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 373 of Meeus index or 1326 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes and it is 42 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 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 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 ∠104.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:00 about 11 days since last apogee on 10 March 2030 at 02:23 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 6 April 2030 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 362 974 km (225 542 mi) away from Earth. It is 466 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 382 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 12 March 2030 at 06:43 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 March 2030 at 05:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 12 March 2030 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.130° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.011° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2030 at 03:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 2 April 2030 at 22:02 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