Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 20 February 2025 at 17:33.
Worm Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2025 after 17 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1938".
Lunation 310 / 1263
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 310 of Meeus index or 1263 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes and it is 1 hour and 56 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠305.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠305.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.3°.
Moon before perigee
6 days since point of apogee on 18 February 2025 at 01:11 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 March 2025 at 21:18 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 385 639 km(239 625 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 967 km(224 916 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 15 February 2025 at 06:53 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 March 2025 at 05:40 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 February 2025 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.673° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.710° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 March 2025 at 15:56 in ♊ Gemini.
In 3 days on 28 February 2025 at 00:45 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.