Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 19% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 March 2070 at 02:11.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2070 after 18 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 867 of Meeus index or 1820 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 22 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 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 47 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 ∠282° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312°.
4 days since point of apogee on 3 March 2070 at 22:21 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2070 at 17:55 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 394 922 km (245 393 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 070 km (227 465 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 1 March 2070 at 00:18 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 March 2070 at 23:47 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 5 March 2070 at 19:21 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.883° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.809° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 March 2070 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 12 March 2070 at 15:52 in ♓ Pisces 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