Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 10 March 2039 at 16:35.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2039 after 26 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 484 of Meeus index or 1437 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 42 minutes and it is 53 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 1 hour and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 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 ∠83.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:38 about 11 days since last apogee on 1 March 2039 at 22:42 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 29 March 2039 at 17:29 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 366 000 km (227 422 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 492 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 356 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 4 March 2039 at 09:49 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2039 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 March 2039 at 12:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.115° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.232° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2039 at 11:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 24 March 2039 at 17:59 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