Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 14 March 2042 at 23:21.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2042 after 17 days on 5 April 2042 at 14:16.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 521 of Meeus index or 1474 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 48 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 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 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 ∠344.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
11 days since point of apogee on 8 March 2042 at 05:04 in ♎ Libra 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 21 March 2042 at 17:40 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 366 412 km (227 678 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 943 km (221 794 mi).
9 days after descending node on 10 March 2042 at 07:08 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 March 2042 at 10:11 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 15 March 2042 at 17:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.137° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.188° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2042 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 21 March 2042 at 17:23 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