Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 about ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 14 March 2048 at 14:28.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2048 after 9 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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 596 of Meeus index or 1549 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes and it is 46 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 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 55 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 ∠100.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠135.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:41 about 15 days since last perigee on 5 March 2048 at 02:21 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 1 April 2048 at 10:10 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 404 637 km (251 430 mi) away from Earth. It is 771 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 072 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 8 March 2048 at 14:31 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 March 2048 at 14:49 in ♊ Gemini.
12 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠24.093° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2048 at 12:10 in ♊ Gemini.
11 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 9 days on 30 March 2048 at 02:04 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