Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 10 March 2068 at 19:26.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2068 after 4 days on 18 March 2068 at 22:56.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 843 of Meeus index or 1796 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2068. 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 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 ∠3.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.9°.
10 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2068 at 18:11 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 March 2068 at 22:03 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 402 006 km (249 795 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 376 km (252 510 mi).
4 days after descending node on 9 March 2068 at 14:23 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 March 2068 at 05:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 10 March 2068 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.781° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.636° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2068 at 09:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 18 March 2068 at 22:56 in ♍ Virgo 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