Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 21 February 2012 at 22:35.
Worm Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2012 after 11 days on 8 March 2012 at 09:40.
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 ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1938".
Lunation 150 / 1103
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 150 of Meeus index or 1103 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 3 minutes and it is 38 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 44 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠107.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠107.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠142.2°.
Moon before apogee
13 days since point of perigee on 11 February 2012 at 18:32 in ♎ Libra 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 27 February 2012 at 14:01 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 403 841 km(250 935 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 864 km(251 571 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 15 February 2012 at 20:16 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 February 2012 at 22:37 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 16 February 2012 at 08:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.299° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.150° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 March 2012 at 16:13 in ♊ Gemini.
In 11 days on 8 March 2012 at 09:40 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.