Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 15 February 2001 at 03:24.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2001 after 16 days on 9 March 2001 at 17:23.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 13 of Meeus index or 966 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2001. 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 7 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠177.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 20 February 2001 at 21:38 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 405 469 km (251 947 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 779 km (223 556 mi).
2 days after descending node on 19 February 2001 at 02:52 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 March 2001 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 18 February 2001 at 21:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.648° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.756° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 March 2001 at 04:32 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 February 2001 at 08:21 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