Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 38% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days 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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 31 March 2071 at 15:03.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2071 after 8 days on 14 April 2071 at 13:56.
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 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 881 of Meeus index or 1834 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 27 minutes and it is 2 hours and 41 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 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 52 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 ∠284.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:12 about 13 days since last apogee on 24 March 2071 at 10:06 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 21 April 2071 at 05:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 369 847 km (229 812 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2071. It is 7 339 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 509 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 31 March 2071 at 08:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 April 2071 at 06:06 in ♎ Libra.
At 04:30 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.186°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.219° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 April 2071 at 15:59.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 14 April 2071 at 13:56 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