Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 February 2076 at 23:49.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2076 after 28 days on 20 March 2076 at 16:37.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
4 days since point of apogee on 17 February 2076 at 01:30 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 March 2076 at 17:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 398 081 km (247 356 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 806 km (224 194 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 15 February 2076 at 04:47 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 February 2076 at 09:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.705° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 February 2076 at 23:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 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 12 days on 5 March 2076 at 07:24 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
