Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 first ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 4 March 2083 at 07:34.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2083 after 28 days on 2 April 2083 at 18:07.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1028 of Meeus index or 1981 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes and it is 32 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 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 ∠89.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠126.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 23 February 2083 at 07:16 in ♉ Taurus 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 7 March 2083 at 02:14 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 369 445 km (229 562 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 030 km (226 819 mi).
3 days after descending node on 2 March 2083 at 10:14 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 March 2083 at 05:07 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 26 February 2083 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.467° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.406° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 March 2083 at 05:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 18 March 2083 at 09:56 in ♓ Pisces 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