Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 15 February 2056 at 14:00.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2056 after 10 days on 2 March 2056 at 00:40.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 694 of Meeus index or 1647 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes and it is 5 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 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 ∠113.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠147°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:27 about 15 days since last perigee on 4 February 2056 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 3 March 2056 at 19:44 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 405 159 km (251 754 mi) away from Earth. It is 249 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 550 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 13 February 2056 at 13:45 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 February 2056 at 01:59 in ♌ Leo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 12 February 2056 at 02:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.191° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.253° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 February 2056 at 15:50 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 March 2056 at 00:40 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