Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 10 March 2100 at 22:28.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2100 after 13 days on 26 March 2100 at 01:05.
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 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1239 of Meeus index or 2192 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2100. 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 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠151.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠176.6°.
14 days since point of perigee on 26 February 2100 at 05:17 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 March 2100 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 405 022 km (251 669 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 110 km (252 345 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 10 March 2100 at 16:27 in ♓ Pisces 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 24 March 2100 at 20:18 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 4 March 2100 at 09:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.575° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.566° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 March 2100 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 26 March 2100 at 01:05 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