Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 29 March 2065 at 00:24.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2065 after 21 days on 20 April 2065 at 18:36.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 806 of Meeus index or 1759 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 46 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2065. 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 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠129.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.2°.
6 days since point of perigee on 23 March 2065 at 16:36 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 8 April 2065 at 00:30 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 379 699 km (235 934 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 389 km (252 518 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 22:27 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 15 days until Moon's next descending node later on 14 April 2065 at 13:32 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 27 March 2065 at 18:51 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.548° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.411° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 April 2065 at 06:32 in ♊ Gemini.
At 22:27 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 6 days on 5 April 2065 at 19:01 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