Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 25 February 2049 at 07:36.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2049 after 18 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23.
There 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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 607 of Meeus index or 1560 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes and it is 32 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 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 ∠20° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:45 about 16 days since last apogee on 13 February 2049 at 12:40 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 13 March 2049 at 07:24 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 364 178 km (226 290 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 670 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 178 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 25 February 2049 at 20:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 March 2049 at 19:09 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 26 February 2049 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.575° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.452° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 March 2049 at 05:37 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 4 March 2049 at 00:11 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
