Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 29 March 2059 at 03:47.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2059 after 27 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
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 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1920".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 732 of Meeus index or 1685 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 23 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2059. 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 3 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 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 ∠12.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30°.
5 days since point of apogee on 25 March 2059 at 20:15 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2059 at 13:47 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 393 358 km (244 421 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 666 km (224 729 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 18 March 2059 at 12:04 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2059 at 02:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 21 March 2059 at 15:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.421° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.541° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 April 2059 at 06:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 12 April 2059 at 09:28 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