Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 17 February 2085 at 14:47.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2085 after 20 days on 11 March 2085 at 12:26.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1052 of Meeus index or 2005 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 21 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 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 ∠0.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.7°.
11 days since point of apogee on 8 February 2085 at 04:48 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 February 2085 at 06:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 368 119 km (228 739 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 586 km (222 815 mi).
13 days after descending node on 6 February 2085 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 February 2085 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 01:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.747°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.652° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 3 March 2085 at 19:04.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 24 February 2085 at 06:32 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
