Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 February 2072 at 23:27.
Worm Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2072 after 17 days on 4 March 2072 at 15:17.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1942".
Lunation 891 / 1844
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 891 of Meeus index or 1844 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2072. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠166.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.8°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 4 February 2072 at 06:26 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 February 2072 at 20:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 404 323 km(251 235 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 547 km(252 617 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 6 February 2072 at 10:25 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2072 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 14 February 2072 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.318° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.278° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 February 2072 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
In 2 days on 19 February 2072 at 02:03 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.