Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 19 March 2085 at 00:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2085 after 19 days on 10 April 2085 at 03:41.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1053 of Meeus index or 2006 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. 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 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.4°.
13 days since point of apogee on 7 March 2085 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2085 at 12:19 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 419 km (225 818 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 064 km (225 598 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 19 March 2085 at 14:38 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 April 2085 at 11:26 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2085 at 07:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.502° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.388° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 March 2085 at 03:08 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 4 days on 25 March 2085 at 16:37 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