Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 26 March 2047 at 11:44.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2047 after 12 days on 10 April 2047 at 10:35.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 584 of Meeus index or 1537 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 4 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 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 ∠161.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 11:07 about 15 days since last perigee on 13 March 2047 at 05:32 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 10 April 2047 at 16:08 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 463 km (252 564 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 055 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 246 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 20 March 2047 at 13:43 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 April 2047 at 05:01 in ♋ Cancer.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2047 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.782° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.632° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 April 2047 at 17:57 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 10 April 2047 at 10:35 in ♎ Libra 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