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Thursday, 20 April 2023 Partial Solar Eclipse (33.7% Obscuration)Greatest eclipse: 12:24:33 Eclipse Begins: Thursday, 20 Apr 2023, 11:06 Tuesday, 08 Nov 2022 Total Lunar EclipseEclipse starts: 18:16:41 (at Moonrise) Duration Total: 1h 24m 58s
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This day in history*Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 18 March 2023, Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius. Previous date |
Moon Today | Next date Moon phases for next 7 daysSunday Sun Monday Mon Tuesday Tue Wednesday Wed Thursday Thu Friday Fri Saturday Sat 7 days ago | 7 days after Moon phase and lunation detailsPrevious main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 15 March 2023 at 02:08. Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east. Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac
sector. Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1928". Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2023 after 18 days on 6 April 2023 at 04:35. Neap tideThere is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak. Lunation 286 / 1239The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 286 of Meeus index or 1239 from Brown series. PreviousCurrent lunationNext Synodic month length 29.43 daysThe length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 17 minutes. It is 32 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°). Lunation length shorter than meanThe length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length. Lunar orbit position on 18 March 2023 Saturday 12:00 UTCAt the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠15.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠34.1°. 14 days after point of
apogee on 3 March 2023 at 18:01 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
19 March 2023 at 15:16 in ♒ Aquarius. Previous apogeeNext perigee
The Moon is 363 389 km (225 799 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 698 km (225 370 mi). 7 days after descending node on 11 March 2023 at 08:53 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in
ascending node on 24 March 2023 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus. Previous
nodeNext node 21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle. PreviousCurrent draconic
monthNext 2 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2023 at 21:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.831°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.898° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2023 at 21:29 in ♊
Gemini. Previous standstillNext standstill In 3 days on 21 March 2023 at 17:23 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. Previous syzygyNext syzygy Is the 18th of March 2022 a Full Moon?The final full moon of the winter season will rise Thursday and Friday night. Specifically, March's full Worm Moon reaches peak illumination at 3:20 A.M. EDT on Friday, March 18, 2022. Of course, you don't have to wait until the middle of the night!
What Moon is on March 2023?March 2023 Moon Details
The Full Moon for this month will occur early in the month on Tuesday, March 7th. The New Moon will happen later in March on Tuesday, March 21st.
What is the moon called March 18 2022?The Worm Moon, the last full moon of winter 2022, rises this Friday. Look out for planets in the sky and worm poop on the ground. March's full moon heralds the long-awaited end of winter this Friday (March 18), when it appears in the sky at 3:18 a.m. EDT, just two days before the spring equinox.
What is the Full Moon schedule for 2023?September 29, 2023 05:57 EST (09:57 UTC) October 28, 2023 16:24 EST (20:24 UTC) November 27, 2023 04:16 EST (09:16 UTC) December 26, 2023 19:33 EST (December 27, 2023 00:33 UTC)
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