Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 passing about ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 24 February 2066 at 08:50.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2066 after 12 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 818 of Meeus index or 1771 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes and it is 53 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 24 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 ∠61.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
7 days since point of perigee on 20 February 2066 at 01:15 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 March 2066 at 06:48 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 394 612 km (245 201 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 251 km (251 190 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 20 February 2066 at 21:32 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2066 at 20:17 in ♋ Cancer.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 18 February 2066 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.369° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.268° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 March 2066 at 15:15 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48 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