Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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 ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 6 March 2099 at 22:59.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2099 after 27 days on 5 April 2099 at 08:37.
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 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1226 of Meeus index or 2179 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 58 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 5 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠175.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.5°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 March 2099 at 16:59 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 March 2099 at 19:55 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 365 838 km (227 321 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 404 km (252 528 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 04:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 March 2099 at 06:44 in ♈ Aries.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 1 March 2099 at 19:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.627° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.667° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 March 2099 at 09:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 21 March 2099 at 22:46 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