Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 about ∠9° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 27 February 2046 at 16:23.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2046 after 17 days on 22 March 2046 at 09:27.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 570 of Meeus index or 1523 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2046. 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 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 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 ∠159.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠184.1°.
11 days since point of perigee on 21 February 2046 at 06:43 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 March 2046 at 06:49 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 401 762 km (249 643 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 576 km (252 635 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 21:25 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 19 March 2046 at 03:00 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 28 February 2046 at 17:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.260° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.160° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 March 2046 at 12:23 in ♊ Gemini.
At 21:25 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 7 March 2046 at 18:15 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