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 ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 23 February 2022 at 22:32.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2022 after 19 days on 18 March 2022 at 07:17.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 273 of Meeus index or 1226 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 14 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 ∠32° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠56.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:18 about 15 days since last apogee on 11 February 2022 at 02:39 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 March 2022 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 367 787 km (228 532 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 279 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 569 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 23 February 2022 at 06:54 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 March 2022 at 08:22 in ♉ Taurus.
At 06:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.559°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.674° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 12 March 2022 at 00:14.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 2 March 2022 at 17:35 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