Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 30 March 2050 at 04:17.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2050 after 1 day on 7 April 2050 at 08:12.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 621 of Meeus index or 1574 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 45 minutes and it is 40 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 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 ∠21.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠41.9°.
2 days since point of apogee on 2 April 2050 at 21:09 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 April 2050 at 19:04 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 403 040 km (250 437 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 528 km (226 507 mi).
10 days after descending node on 26 March 2050 at 10:48 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 April 2050 at 23:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 28 March 2050 at 12:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.614° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.531° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 April 2050 at 03:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 7 April 2050 at 08:12 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