Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 82% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 22 February 2075 at 20:00.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2075 after 4 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 929 of Meeus index or 1882 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes and it is 47 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 equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠46.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.5°.
2 days since point of apogee on 24 February 2075 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 March 2075 at 13:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 403 045 km (250 441 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 071 km (229 951 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 22:09 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 12 March 2075 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 00:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.916°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.019° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 March 2075 at 10:20.
At 22:09 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 4 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06 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
