Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠23° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 11 February 2070 at 02:52.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2070 after 9 days on 25 February 2070 at 02:31.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 867 of Meeus index or 1820 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 22 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 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 47 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 ∠282° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312°.
11 days since point of apogee on 4 February 2070 at 01:19 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 February 2070 at 15:55 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 366 622 km (227 808 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 239 km (230 056 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 19:12 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 March 2070 at 00:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 6 February 2070 at 10:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.101° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.990° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2070 at 18:41 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 25 February 2070 at 02:31 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