Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 20 February 2044 at 20:20.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2044 after 19 days on 13 March 2044 at 19:41.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 545 of Meeus index or 1498 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 3 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 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 ∠235.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 22 February 2044 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 March 2044 at 20:36 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 835 km (251 553 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 930 km (229 864 mi).
8 days after descending node on 15 February 2044 at 03:48 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 February 2044 at 14:57 in ♓ Pisces.
At 02:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.625°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.650° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 7 March 2044 at 16:53.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 28 February 2044 at 20:12 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