Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 29 February 2048 at 14:38.
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2048 after 26 days on 30 March 2048 at 02:04.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1935".
Lunation 595 / 1548
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 595 of Meeus index or 1548 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 56 minutes and it is 56 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠64.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.4°.
Moon before perigee
10 days since point of apogee on 21 February 2048 at 18:29 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 March 2048 at 02:21 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 368 423 km(228 927 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 850 km(229 193 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 24 February 2048 at 12:13 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 March 2048 at 14:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 23 February 2048 at 04:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.357° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.235° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 March 2048 at 13:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 11 days on 14 March 2048 at 14:28 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.