Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 18 February 2032 at 03:29.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2032 after 2 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43.
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 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 397 of Meeus index or 1350 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 15 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2032. 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 2 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 25 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 ∠6.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 18:41 about 12 days since last perigee on 10 February 2032 at 20:46 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 10 March 2032 at 06:54 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 406 290 km (252 457 mi) away from Earth. It is 882 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 419 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 16 February 2032 at 21:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 March 2032 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 19 February 2032 at 21:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.009° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.866° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 March 2032 at 11:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43 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