Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 21 March 2080 at 12:06.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2080 after 11 days on 4 April 2080 at 11:24.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 992 of Meeus index or 1945 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes and it is 2 hours and 57 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 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 53 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 ∠264.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠298.1°.
8 days since point of apogee on 15 March 2080 at 06:06 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 March 2080 at 10:45 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 379 730 km (235 953 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 233 km (229 431 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 22 March 2080 at 08:10 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 April 2080 at 06:19 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 14 March 2080 at 04:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.568° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.594° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2080 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 4 April 2080 at 11:24 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.
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