Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 8 February 2075 at 12:41.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2075 after 17 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 928 of Meeus index or 1881 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes and it is 40 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 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠24.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 12 February 2075 at 07:55 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 February 2075 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 368 073 km (228 710 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 450 km (251 314 mi).
1 day after descending node on 12 February 2075 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn 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 26 February 2075 at 22:09 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 12 February 2075 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.860° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.916° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 February 2075 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 15 February 2075 at 06:40 in ♒ Aquarius 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