Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% 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 passing about ∠15° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 21 March 2063 at 20:16.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2063 after 18 days on 13 April 2063 at 02:34.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 781 of Meeus index or 1734 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes and it is 3 hours and 10 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 4 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 35 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 ∠204.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:06 about 12 days since last perigee on 13 March 2063 at 05:45 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 10 April 2063 at 05:55 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 402 km (251 905 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 307 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 13 March 2063 at 22:26 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2063 at 21:01 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 21 March 2063 at 12:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.488° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.415° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2063 at 23:41 in ♊ Gemini.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 30 March 2063 at 00:50 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