Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 19 March 2030 at 17:56.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2030 after 23 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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 21 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°.
3 days since point of perigee on 21 March 2030 at 22:00 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 April 2030 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 365 656 km (227 208 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 659 km (252 065 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 05:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 8 April 2030 at 08:29 in ♊ Gemini.
At 03:57 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.011°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.881° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 April 2030 at 08:53.
At 05:48 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 8 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