Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 27 March 2072 at 09:43.
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2072 after 2 days on 3 April 2072 at 01:25.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1920".
Lunation 893 / 1846
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 893 of Meeus index or 1846 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes and it is 3 hours and 13 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠217.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠217.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.1°.
Moon before perigee
15 days since point of apogee on 16 March 2072 at 05:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 April 2072 at 01:31 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 363 820 km(226 067 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 291 km(225 117 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 18 March 2072 at 21:48 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2072 at 07:46 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 27 March 2072 at 02:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.306° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.355° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 April 2072 at 21:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 2 days on 3 April 2072 at 01:25 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.