Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 79% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 2 March 2058 at 05:10.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2058 after 4 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 719 of Meeus index or 1672 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 46 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠28.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:58 about 11 days since last perigee on 21 February 2058 at 06:06 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 21 March 2058 at 01:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 080 km (251 705 mi) away from Earth. It is 328 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 629 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 2 March 2058 at 22:25 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2058 at 01:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 March 2058 at 15:47 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.758° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.900° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2058 at 14:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52 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