Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 17 February 2051 at 22:16.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2051 after 4 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 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
8 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 February 2051 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 387 760 km (240 943 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 980 km (252 264 mi).
5 days after descending node on 16 February 2051 at 04:27 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 March 2051 at 09:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 19 February 2051 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.472° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.338° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 March 2051 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 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