Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 March 2095 at 01:10.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2095 after 28 days on 19 April 2095 at 18:14.
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 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1177 of Meeus index or 2130 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes and it is 27 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 3 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 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 ∠354° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 20 March 2095 at 17:48 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2095 at 03:40 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 404 201 km (251 159 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 412 km (222 086 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 13 March 2095 at 02:33 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 March 2095 at 18:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 14 March 2095 at 10:35 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.438° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.592° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 March 2095 at 04:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 4 April 2095 at 16:36 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