Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠16° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 17 March 2054 at 01:21.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2054 after 3 days on 23 March 2054 at 17:21.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 670 of Meeus index or 1623 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes and it is 3 hours and 19 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 3 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠220.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.3°.
14 days since point of apogee on 5 March 2054 at 16:18 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2054 at 14:11 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 363 431 km (225 826 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 830 km (225 452 mi).
11 days after descending node on 8 March 2054 at 13:36 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 March 2054 at 22:53 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 17 March 2054 at 17:30 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.685° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.738° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 March 2054 at 17:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 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 3 days on 23 March 2054 at 17:21 in ♍ Virgo 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