Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 81% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 15 February 2035 at 13:17.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2035 after 3 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 434 of Meeus index or 1387 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 59 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠255.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:31 about 15 days since last apogee on 2 February 2035 at 12:48 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 2 March 2035 at 09:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 368 326 km (228 867 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 818 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 030 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 10 February 2035 at 07:03 in ♓ Pisces 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 23 February 2035 at 04:20 in ♍ Virgo.
At 04:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.402°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.382° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 4 March 2035 at 01:09.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54 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