Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 24 February 2011 at 23:26.
Worm Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2011 after 16 days on 19 March 2011 at 18:10.
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 ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1935".
Lunation 137 / 1090
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 137 of Meeus index or 1090 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 15 minutes and it is 29 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2011. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠139.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠139.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠167°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 19 February 2011 at 07:27 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 March 2011 at 07:50 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 402 394 km(250 036 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 584 km(252 640 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 26 February 2011 at 20:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 March 2011 at 11:55 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 25 February 2011 at 22:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.985° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.825° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 March 2011 at 17:06 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 4 March 2011 at 20:46 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.