Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 4 April 2036 at 00:03.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2036 after 5 days on 10 April 2036 at 20:22.
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 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 448 of Meeus index or 1401 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠258.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.8°.
14 days since point of apogee on 21 March 2036 at 21:41 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 April 2036 at 09:36 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 363 446 km (225 835 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 619 km (229 049 mi).
12 days after descending node on 24 March 2036 at 11:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 April 2036 at 19:59 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 3 April 2036 at 13:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.439° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.540° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 April 2036 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 10 April 2036 at 20:22 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