Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 23 March 2094 at 20:05.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2094 after 3 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 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1165 of Meeus index or 2118 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 53 minutes and it is 39 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2094. 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 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 ∠24.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠45.7°.
1 day since point of apogee on 27 March 2094 at 05:18 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 April 2094 at 03:26 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 405 045 km (251 683 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 456 km (227 084 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 24 March 2094 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 April 2094 at 19:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 24 March 2094 at 12:07 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.815° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.963° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 April 2094 at 19:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 1 April 2094 at 00:11 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