Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 March 2079 at 13:45.
Worm Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2079 after 26 days on 16 April 2079 at 05:02.
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 ∠1785"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1926".
Lunation 979 / 1932
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 979 of Meeus index or 1932 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes and it is 2 hours and 14 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 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠296.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠296.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠322.3°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 8 March 2079 at 01:47 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 March 2079 at 14:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 401 608 km(249 548 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 575 km(251 391 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 07:24 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 3 April 2079 at 08:26 in ♉ Taurus.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 11 March 2079 at 13:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.915° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.001° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2079 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 12 days on 2 April 2079 at 01:30 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.