Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 11 February 2051 at 06:41.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2051 after 9 days on 25 February 2051 at 14:53.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 632 of Meeus index or 1585 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 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 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠334.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.3°.
3 days since point of perigee on 12 February 2051 at 18:54 in ♓ Pisces 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 28 February 2051 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 366 706 km (227 861 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 980 km (252 264 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 04:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 2 March 2051 at 09:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 6 February 2051 at 23:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.572° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.472° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2051 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 25 February 2051 at 14:53 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