Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 18 February 2015 at 23:47.
Worm Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2015 after 9 days on 5 March 2015 at 18:06.
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 ∠1905"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1939".
Lunation 187 / 1140
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 187 of Meeus index or 1140 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 49 minutes and it is 28 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠354.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠354.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.9°.
Moon after perigee
5 days since point of perigee on 19 February 2015 at 07:29 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 March 2015 at 07:35 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 376 182 km(233 749 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 386 km(252 517 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 21 February 2015 at 16:05 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 March 2015 at 21:04 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 14 February 2015 at 17:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.402° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.335° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2015 at 07:19 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 5 March 2015 at 18:06 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.