Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 passing first ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 28 February 2025 at 00:45.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2025 after 12 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 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 ∠329.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:18 about 11 days since last apogee on 18 February 2025 at 01:11 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 17 March 2025 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 361 967 km (224 916 mi) away from Earth. It is 541 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 389 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 05:40 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 22 February 2025 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.673° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.710° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 March 2025 at 15:56 in ♊ Gemini.
At 05:40 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55 in ♍ Virgo 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
