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 about ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 18 February 2074 at 15:55.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2074 after 16 days on 13 March 2074 at 09:01.
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 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 916 of Meeus index or 1869 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 57 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 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 ∠72.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110°.
8 days since point of perigee on 15 February 2074 at 14:22 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 March 2074 at 10:49 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 386 611 km (240 229 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 044 km (251 683 mi).
1 day after descending node on 23 February 2074 at 22:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 March 2074 at 10:26 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 21 February 2074 at 13:21 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.259° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.323° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 March 2074 at 00:50 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 25 February 2074 at 22:00 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
