Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 36% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 20 March 2093 at 04:57.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2093 after 21 days on 11 April 2093 at 16:35.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:04 about 14 days since last apogee on 6 March 2093 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 3 April 2093 at 11:21 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 369 821 km (229 796 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 313 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 535 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 9 March 2093 at 06:15 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 March 2093 at 12:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 March 2093 at 23:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.054° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.174° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2093 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 27 March 2093 at 03:18 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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
