Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 20 March 2091 at 03:45.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 13 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1128 of Meeus index or 2081 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠165.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:48 about 15 days since last perigee on 6 March 2091 at 16:02 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 4 April 2091 at 03:26 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 436 km (252 548 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 028 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 273 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces 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 1 April 2091 at 21:03 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 13 March 2091 at 06:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.480° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2091 at 00:55 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31 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