Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 82% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 6 March 2074 at 00:43.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2074 after 3 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 ∠1848" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 917 of Meeus index or 1870 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes and it is 8 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 3 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 27 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 ∠110° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144°.
6 days since point of apogee on 3 March 2074 at 10:49 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2074 at 07:27 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 387 870 km (241 011 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 025 km (224 952 mi).
13 days after descending node on 23 February 2074 at 22:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 March 2074 at 10:26 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 8 March 2074 at 00:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.323° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.405° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2074 at 18:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 13 March 2074 at 09:01 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