Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 10 February 2066 at 08:29.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2066 after 23 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 817 of Meeus index or 1770 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 47 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠35.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.6°.
12 days since point of apogee on 4 February 2066 at 09:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 February 2066 at 01:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 785 km (227 288 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 665 km (229 078 mi).
8 days after descending node on 7 February 2066 at 15:03 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 February 2066 at 21:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 5 February 2066 at 06:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.448° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.369° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 February 2066 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 24 February 2066 at 08:50 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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