Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% 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 about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 8 March 2086 at 14:30.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2086 after 19 days on 30 March 2086 at 06:17.
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 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1065 of Meeus index or 2018 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 37 minutes and it is 48 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 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 ∠347° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.3°.
9 days since point of apogee on 1 March 2086 at 10:54 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2086 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 374 923 km (232 966 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 789 km (221 698 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 8 March 2086 at 13:24 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 20 March 2086 at 23:01 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 8 March 2086 at 14:49 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.874° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.761° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2086 at 02:20 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 15 March 2086 at 08:04 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