Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 28 February 2073 at 22:40.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2073 after 16 days on 23 March 2073 at 17:17.
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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 904 of Meeus index or 1857 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 35 minutes and it is 37 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2073. 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 5 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 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 ∠140.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.4°.
12 days since point of perigee on 23 February 2073 at 05:00 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 March 2073 at 03:57 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 402 765 km (250 267 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 480 km (252 575 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 07:16 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 21 March 2073 at 12:15 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 2 March 2073 at 23:21 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.001° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.057° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 March 2073 at 17:57 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 8 March 2073 at 20:15 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