Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 17 March 2079 at 13:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2079 after 23 days on 16 April 2079 at 05:02.
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 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 20 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°).
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.
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 is at apogee at 14:17 about 15 days since last perigee on 8 March 2079 at 01:47 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 4 April 2079 at 09:24 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 575 km (251 391 mi) away from Earth. It is 833 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 134 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 20 March 2079 at 07:24 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 April 2079 at 08:26 in ♉ Taurus.
11 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.001° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2079 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 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.
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
