Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 25% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 13 March 2097 at 21:56.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2097 after 9 days on 27 March 2097 at 21:28.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1202 of Meeus index or 2155 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 55 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 ∠293.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:21 about 12 days since last apogee on 6 March 2097 at 06:30 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 3 April 2097 at 02:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 369 258 km (229 446 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 750 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 098 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 17 March 2097 at 10:29 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 March 2097 at 15:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 7 March 2097 at 20:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.286° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.386° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2097 at 05:57 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 27 March 2097 at 21:28 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