Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 19 March 2089 at 15:30.
Worm Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2089 after 1 day on 26 March 2089 at 09:20.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 0% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1923".
Lunation 1103 / 2056
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
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.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠244.3°
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°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 23 March 2089 at 00:07 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2089 at 22:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 372 828 km(231 665 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 427 km(251 299 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 14 March 2089 at 09:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2089 at 05:54 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 19 March 2089 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.481° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.450° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 April 2089 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day 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.