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 ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 13 February 2082 at 06:16.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2082 after 28 days on 14 March 2082 at 16:45.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1015 of Meeus index or 1968 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes and it is 14 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 5 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠122.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:46 about 11 days since last apogee on 2 February 2082 at 18:11 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 2 March 2082 at 08:00 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 360 321 km (223 893 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 187 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 035 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 00:16 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 27 February 2082 at 08:13 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 9 February 2082 at 02:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.278° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.301° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 February 2082 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 27 February 2082 at 14:48 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