Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 February 2038 at 16:09.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2038 after 27 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 471 of Meeus index or 1424 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 23 minutes and it is 5 minutes 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 4 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 24 minutes 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 ∠117.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:05 about 11 days since last apogee on 9 February 2038 at 10:00 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 9 March 2038 at 00:39 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 360 960 km (224 290 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 548 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 396 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 16 February 2038 at 17:30 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 16 February 2038 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.250° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 5 March 2038 at 23:15 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