Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 26 February 2019 at 11:28.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2019 after 19 days on 21 March 2019 at 01:43.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
10 days since point of perigee on 19 February 2019 at 09:06 in ♌ Leo 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 4 March 2019 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 400 538 km (248 883 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 391 km (252 520 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 17 February 2019 at 09:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 March 2019 at 11:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 06:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.642°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.761° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 15 March 2019 at 17:59.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 6 March 2019 at 16:04 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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
