Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 February 2016 at 14:39.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2016 after 12 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠319.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
11 days since point of apogee on 30 January 2016 at 09:10 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 February 2016 at 02:42 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 366 339 km (227 633 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 358 km (226 402 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 20:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 February 2016 at 04:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.303° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.254° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 February 2016 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov