Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 6 March 2084 at 17:04.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2084 after 8 days on 22 March 2084 at 06:48.
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 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1041 of Meeus index or 1994 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes and it is 52 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 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 59 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 ∠58.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.
10 days since point of perigee on 2 March 2084 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 March 2084 at 19:06 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 589 km (251 400 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 243 km (251 185 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 3 March 2084 at 06:34 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2084 at 04:22 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 29 February 2084 at 15:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.203° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.104° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 March 2084 at 02:47 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 22 March 2084 at 06:48 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