Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 28% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 2 March 2041 at 15:39.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2041 after 10 days on 17 March 2041 at 20:19.
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 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 509 of Meeus index or 1462 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 50 minutes and it is 27 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2041. 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 15 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 ∠14° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32.1°.
5 days since point of perigee on 1 March 2041 at 19:56 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 March 2041 at 07:06 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 383 942 km (238 570 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 968 km (252 257 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 03:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 21 March 2041 at 17:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 26 February 2041 at 07:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.040° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.133° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 March 2041 at 02:59 in ♋ Cancer.
At 03:29 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 10 days on 17 March 2041 at 20:19 in ♍ Virgo 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