Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 March 2097 at 21:28.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2097 after 28 days on 26 April 2097 at 12:09.
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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
10 days since point of perigee on 18 March 2097 at 19:21 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2097 at 02:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 396 581 km (246 424 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 485 km (251 335 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 17 March 2097 at 10:29 in ♉ Taurus 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 30 March 2097 at 15:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 21 March 2097 at 05:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.386° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.474° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 April 2097 at 05:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days 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 13 days on 12 April 2097 at 09:26 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