Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 18 March 2083 at 09:56.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2083 after 10 days on 2 April 2083 at 18:07.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1029 of Meeus index or 1982 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 13 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2083. 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 3 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 34 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 ∠126.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:37 about 15 days since last perigee on 7 March 2083 at 02:14 in ♎ Libra 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 2083 at 03:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 405 448 km (251 934 mi) away from Earth. It is 40 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 261 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 15 March 2083 at 05:07 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2083 at 18:06 in ♌ Leo.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 11 March 2083 at 05:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.406° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.306° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2083 at 12:42 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 April 2083 at 18:07 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