Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 76% 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 ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 3 March 2001 at 02:03.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2001 after 4 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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 14 of Meeus index or 967 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 55 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 4 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 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 ∠202.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232.3°.
12 days 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 364 975 km (226 785 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 779 km (223 556 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 07:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 March 2001 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 04:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.756°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.857° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 March 2001 at 03:47.
At 07:23 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 9 March 2001 at 17:23 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