Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 24 February 2045 at 16:37.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2045 after 1 day on 3 March 2045 at 07:52.
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 ∠1960" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 558 of Meeus index or 1511 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes and it is 3 hours and 12 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 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 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 ∠207.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238.6°.
1 day since point of perigee on 1 March 2045 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 March 2045 at 18:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 758 km (227 271 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 311 km (251 849 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 13:33 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 March 2045 at 12:51 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 26 February 2045 at 01:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.188° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.164° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 March 2045 at 22:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 3 March 2045 at 07:52 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