Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 12 February 2002 at 07:41.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2002 after 12 days on 27 February 2002 at 09:17.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 26 of Meeus index or 979 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2002. 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 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 ∠155.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:22 about 15 days since last perigee on 30 January 2002 at 09:02 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 27 February 2002 at 19:47 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 361 km (252 501 mi) away from Earth. It is 953 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 348 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 7 February 2002 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 February 2002 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 8 February 2002 at 20:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.309° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.418° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2002 at 11:48 in ♋ Cancer.
19 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 12 days on 27 February 2002 at 09:17 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