Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 8 March 2056 at 15:31.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2056 after 19 days on 31 March 2056 at 10:25.
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 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 694 of Meeus index or 1647 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes and it is 5 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes 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 ∠113.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠147°.
7 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2056 at 19:44 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 March 2056 at 13:34 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 382 165 km (237 466 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 082 km (252 328 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 17:34 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 26 March 2056 at 07:57 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 10 March 2056 at 07:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.325° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.456° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2056 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 16 March 2056 at 06:52 in ♓ Pisces 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