Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 23 March 2071 at 17:32.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2071 after 15 days on 14 April 2071 at 13:56.
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 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 880 of Meeus index or 1833 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 32 minutes and it is 3 hours and 5 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 1 hour and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 15 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 ∠248.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠284.2°.
6 days since point of apogee on 24 March 2071 at 10:06 in ♑ Capricorn 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 6 April 2071 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 389 257 km (241 873 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 847 km (229 812 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 16 March 2071 at 21:22 in ♎ Libra 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 31 March 2071 at 08:03 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 23 March 2071 at 07:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.172° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.186° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 April 2071 at 04:30 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 31 March 2071 at 15:03 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