Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 6 February 2014 at 19:22.
Snow Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2014 after 3 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53.
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 ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1944".
Lunation 174 / 1127
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 174 of Meeus index or 1127 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2014. 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠8.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠8.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.1°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 30 January 2014 at 09:58 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 February 2014 at 05:09 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 933 km(251 614 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 232 km(252 421 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 5 February 2014 at 12:41 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 February 2014 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 9 February 2014 at 15:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.306° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.175° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 February 2014 at 01:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 3 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53 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.