Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2051 after 27 days on 26 April 2051 at 02:19.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 27 March 2051 at 12:23 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2051 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 403 716 km (250 857 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 337 km (222 039 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 13:32 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 11 April 2051 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries.
10 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 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 April 2051 at 15:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 13:32 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 11 April 2051 at 01:59 in ♈ Aries 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