Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 13 March 2057 at 09:35.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2057 after 5 days on 21 March 2057 at 00:45.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 707 of Meeus index or 1660 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes and it is 54 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 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 40 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 ∠80° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠117°.
3 days since point of apogee on 12 March 2057 at 10:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 March 2057 at 08:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 400 712 km (248 991 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 570 km (227 776 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 14 March 2057 at 17:54 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 March 2057 at 19:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 14 March 2057 at 22:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.130° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.258° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2057 at 01:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 21 March 2057 at 00:45 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