Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 28 March 2078 at 11:04.
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2078 after 26 days on 27 April 2078 at 04:19.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1920".
Lunation 967 / 1920
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 967 of Meeus index or 1920 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 7 minutes and it is 55 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠340.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠340.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.5°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 30 March 2078 at 08:45 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 April 2078 at 14:39 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 404 605 km(251 410 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 152 km(221 924 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 23:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 14 April 2078 at 03:56 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 21 March 2078 at 05:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.910° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.019° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 April 2078 at 23:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 11 days on 12 April 2078 at 09:45 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.