Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 about ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 21 March 2044 at 16:52.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 15 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.
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 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 546 of Meeus index or 1499 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 58 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 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 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 ∠272.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.8°.
6 days since point of apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 April 2044 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 386 823 km (240 361 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 395 km (228 289 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 April 2044 at 20:15 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.641° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.596° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2044 at 22:19 in ♊ Gemini.
At 23:51 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 1 day on 29 March 2044 at 09:26 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
