Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 27 February 2076 at 15:54.
Worm Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2076 after 20 days on 20 March 2076 at 16:37.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1936".
Lunation 941 / 1894
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠9.4°
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 before perigee
12 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 March 2076 at 17:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 365 436 km(227 071 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 806 km(224 194 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 09:23 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 13 March 2076 at 06:34 in ♋ Cancer.
At 23:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.705°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.806° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 14 March 2076 at 02:15.
In 4 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.