Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 18 February 2034 at 23:10.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2034 after 11 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 422 of Meeus index or 1375 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 53 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 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠317.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:30 about 11 days since last apogee on 9 February 2034 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 9 March 2034 at 16:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 364 926 km (226 755 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 418 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 430 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 05:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 6 March 2034 at 14:21 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 14 February 2034 at 10:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.256° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.195° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2034 at 06:42 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10 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