Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 7 March 2048 at 10:45.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2048 after 17 days on 30 March 2048 at 02:04.
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 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 595 of Meeus index or 1548 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 56 minutes and it is 56 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 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 ∠64.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.4°.
7 days since point of perigee on 5 March 2048 at 02:21 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 March 2048 at 14:41 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 380 616 km (236 504 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 637 km (251 430 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 8 March 2048 at 14:31 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 March 2048 at 14:49 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 7 March 2048 at 13:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.235° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.093° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2048 at 12:10 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 14 March 2048 at 14:28 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