Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 February 2078 at 17:50.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2078 after 25 days on 28 March 2078 at 11:04.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 966 of Meeus index or 1919 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 4 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 ∠321.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:52 about 15 days since last perigee on 14 February 2078 at 23:02 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 15 March 2078 at 04:04 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 405 426 km (251 920 mi) away from Earth. It is 18 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 283 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 18 February 2078 at 17:22 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 March 2078 at 20:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 22 February 2078 at 00:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.679° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.812° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 March 2078 at 15:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 14 March 2078 at 00:37 in ♈ Aries 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