Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 19 March 2051 at 09:34.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2051 after 4 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00.
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 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
9 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 March 2051 at 12:23 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 394 397 km (245 067 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 342 km (252 489 mi).
7 days after descending node on 15 March 2051 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 March 2051 at 13:32 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 18 March 2051 at 21:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.258° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 April 2051 at 15:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
20 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 4 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