Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 12 March 2070 at 15:52.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2070 after 13 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31.
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 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 868 of Meeus index or 1821 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 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 ∠312° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠333.5°.
9 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2070 at 17:55 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 371 782 km (231 015 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 070 km (227 465 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 1 March 2070 at 00:18 in ♏ Scorpio 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 14 March 2070 at 23:47 in ♈ Aries.
7 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.809° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 March 2070 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer.
12 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 13 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31 in ♎ Libra 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