Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 5 March 2093 at 03:27.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2093 after 3 days on 13 March 2093 at 04:06.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1152 of Meeus index or 2105 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 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 ∠43.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.1°.
2 days since point of apogee on 6 March 2093 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2093 at 10:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 401 950 km (249 760 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 821 km (229 796 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 06:15 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 March 2093 at 12:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 7 March 2093 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.943° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.054° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2093 at 23:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 06:15 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 13 March 2093 at 04:06 in ♍ Virgo 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