Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 19% 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 ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 30 March 2033 at 17:52.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2033 after 11 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17.
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 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 411 of Meeus index or 1364 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes and it is 5 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 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 ∠8.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.1°.
4 days since point of perigee on 30 March 2033 at 06:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 April 2033 at 02:26 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 375 506 km (233 329 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 060 km (252 314 mi).
3 days after descending node on 31 March 2033 at 11:09 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 April 2033 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 23 March 2033 at 08:32 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.613° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.590° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2033 at 20:56 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17 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