Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 20 March 2053 at 07:11.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2053 after 7 days on 3 April 2053 at 06:22.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 658 of Meeus index or 1611 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 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 ∠288° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠316.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 25 March 2053 at 21:13 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 April 2053 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 363 321 km (225 757 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 471 km (251 327 mi).
6 days after descending node on 19 March 2053 at 23:33 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2053 at 21:29 in ♍ Virgo.
At 19:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.163°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2053. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.204° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 9 April 2053 at 12:44.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 3 April 2053 at 06:22 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