Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 2 February 2009 at 23:13.
Snow Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2009 after 1 day on 9 February 2009 at 14:49.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1945".
Lunation 112 / 1065
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 112 of Meeus index or 1065 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 40 minutes and it is 3 hours and 9 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠213.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠213.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠246.2°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 7 February 2009 at 20:08 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 February 2009 at 17:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 365 947 km(227 389 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 132 km(251 737 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 19:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 February 2009 at 20:31 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 5 February 2009 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.083° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.057° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 February 2009 at 21:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 9 February 2009 at 14:49 in ♌ Leo 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.