Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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 ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 14 March 2082 at 16:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2082 after 28 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°).
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.
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 is at perigee at 04:17 about 12 days since last apogee on 2 March 2082 at 08:00 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 29 March 2082 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 357 173 km (221 937 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 335 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 183 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 13 March 2082 at 11:29 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 March 2082 at 13:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.248° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2082 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 29 March 2082 at 09:05 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