Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 27% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 25 March 2041 at 10:32.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2041 after 20 days on 16 April 2041 at 12:00.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
13 days since point of apogee on 14 March 2041 at 07:06 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 March 2041 at 02:37 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 364 086 km (226 233 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 174 km (225 044 mi).
5 days after descending node on 21 March 2041 at 17:35 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 April 2041 at 10:39 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 March 2041 at 14:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.252° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.319° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 April 2041 at 10:33 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 1 April 2041 at 01:29 in ♈ Aries 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