Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 12 March 2051 at 16:52.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2051 after 11 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 633 of Meeus index or 1586 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 7 minutes and it is 37 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 32 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 ∠351.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.6°.
2 days since point of perigee on 13 March 2051 at 05:02 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 March 2051 at 12:23 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 365 270 km (226 968 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 342 km (252 489 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 09:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 29 March 2051 at 13:32 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 6 March 2051 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.338° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.258° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 March 2051 at 21:07 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00 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