Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 7 March 2082 at 19:15.
Worm Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2082 after 1 day on 14 March 2082 at 16:45.
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 ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1930".
Lunation 1016 / 1969
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1016 of Meeus index or 1969 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2082. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠154.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠154.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.1°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 2 March 2082 at 08:00 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2082 at 04:17 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 366 072 km(227 467 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 173 km(221 937 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 11:29 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 26 March 2082 at 13:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 8 March 2082 at 11:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.286° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.248° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2082 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 14 March 2082 at 16:45 in ♍ Virgo 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.