Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 33% 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 ∠11° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 15 March 2086 at 08:04.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2086 after 9 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 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1066 of Meeus index or 2019 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 minute 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 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 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 ∠2.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.1°.
5 days since point of perigee on 15 March 2086 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 March 2086 at 11:54 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 378 933 km (235 458 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 404 km (252 528 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 23:01 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 15 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 April 2086 at 14:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠22.761° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2086 at 02:20 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 30 March 2086 at 06:17 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