Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% 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 passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 11 March 2072 at 15:18.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2072 after 18 days on 3 April 2072 at 01:25.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 892 of Meeus index or 1845 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 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 5 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 29 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 ∠190.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.4°.
11 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2072 at 18:40 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 March 2072 at 05:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 404 924 km (251 608 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 956 km (252 249 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 4 March 2072 at 21:20 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 March 2072 at 21:48 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 12 March 2072 at 13:34 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.269° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.306° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 March 2072 at 02:22 in ♋ Cancer.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 19 March 2072 at 20:21 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