Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 passing first ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 11 February 2076 at 18:35.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2076 after 2 days on 19 February 2076 at 23:49.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 941 of Meeus index or 1894 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes and it is longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2076. 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 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 48 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 ∠9.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:30 about 12 days since last perigee on 4 February 2076 at 07:52 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 3 March 2076 at 17:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 053 km (252 310 mi) away from Earth. It is 645 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 656 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 15 February 2076 at 04:47 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 February 2076 at 09:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 February 2076 at 19:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.589° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.705° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 February 2076 at 23:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 19 February 2076 at 23:49 in ♌ Leo 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