Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 19 March 2074 at 23:58.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2074 after 18 days on 11 April 2074 at 18:30.
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 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 917 of Meeus index or 1870 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes and it is 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 27 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 ∠110° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144°.
9 days since point of perigee on 15 March 2074 at 07:27 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 March 2074 at 02:22 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 389 006 km (241 717 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 972 km (252 259 mi).
1 day after descending node on 23 March 2074 at 02:17 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 April 2074 at 16:25 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 20 March 2074 at 18:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.405° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.533° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2074 at 08:53 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 27 March 2074 at 14:19 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