Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 passing about ∠22° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 17 March 2058 at 15:56.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2058 after 18 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 719 of Meeus index or 1672 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 46 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠28.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:53 about 15 days since last apogee on 5 March 2058 at 03:58 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 1 April 2058 at 23:36 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 366 648 km (227 825 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 140 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 708 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 17 March 2058 at 01:12 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 March 2058 at 00:38 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2058 at 14:46 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.900° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.018° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 March 2058 at 23:15 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 24 March 2058 at 09:50 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