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 first ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 2 March 2020 at 19:57.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2020 after 3 days on 9 March 2020 at 17:48.
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 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 249 of Meeus index or 1202 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes and it is 58 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2020. 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 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 ∠152.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠177.9°.
9 days since point of apogee on 26 February 2020 at 11:35 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 March 2020 at 06:33 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 373 689 km (232 200 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 123 km (221 906 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 4 March 2020 at 14:58 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2020 at 01:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 5 March 2020 at 01:34 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.441° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.540° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 March 2020 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 9 March 2020 at 17:48 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.
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