Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 5 March 2032 at 01:47.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2032 after 16 days on 27 March 2032 at 00:46.
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 ∠1966" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 397 of Meeus index or 1350 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 15 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2032. 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 25 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 ∠6.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:54 about 15 days since last apogee on 23 February 2032 at 18:41 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 22 March 2032 at 08:27 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 360 020 km (223 706 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 488 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 336 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 2 March 2032 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 March 2032 at 02:16 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 March 2032 at 11:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.866° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.775° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 March 2032 at 04:54 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 11 March 2032 at 16:25 in ♓ Pisces 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