Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 12 February 2019 at 22:26.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2019 after 3 days on 19 February 2019 at 15:53.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 236 of Meeus index or 1189 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 13 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠175.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠200.2°.
11 days since point of apogee on 5 February 2019 at 09:26 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 February 2019 at 09:06 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 367 314 km (228 238 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 762 km (221 682 mi).
13 days after descending node on 3 February 2019 at 06:35 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 February 2019 at 09:42 in ♋ Cancer.
At 09:56 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.590°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.642° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 1 March 2019 at 06:23.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 19 February 2019 at 15:53 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.
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