Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 25 February 2053 at 22:09.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2053 after 5 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09.
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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 657 of Meeus index or 1610 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes and it is 3 hours and 3 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 1 hour and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 7 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 ∠251.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠288°.
14 days since point of apogee on 13 February 2053 at 01:22 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 28 February 2053 at 20:20 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 343 km (225 771 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 800 km (228 540 mi).
6 days after descending node on 20 February 2053 at 15:44 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 March 2053 at 12:51 in ♍ Virgo.
At 13:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.174°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.150° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 13 March 2053 at 04:30.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09 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