Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 12 March 2089 at 08:24.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2089 after 10 days on 26 March 2089 at 09:20.
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 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1887" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1103 of Meeus index or 2056 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes and it is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 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 ∠244.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280.3°.
8 days since point of apogee on 7 March 2089 at 02:34 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2089 at 00:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 379 864 km (236 037 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 668 km (227 837 mi).
1 day after descending node on 14 March 2089 at 09:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2089 at 05:54 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 5 March 2089 at 03:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.545° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.481° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 March 2089 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 26 March 2089 at 09:20 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