Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 10 March 2094 at 00:22.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2094 after 19 days on 1 April 2094 at 00:11.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1164 of Meeus index or 2117 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 8 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 26 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 ∠7.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.6°.
12 days since point of apogee on 27 February 2094 at 15:03 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2094 at 04:25 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 364 541 km (226 515 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 366 km (223 921 mi).
1 day after descending node on 11 March 2094 at 18:24 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 March 2094 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 11 March 2094 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.707° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.815° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 March 2094 at 12:07 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 16 March 2094 at 15:44 in ♓ Pisces 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