Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 about ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 13 February 2084 at 13:28.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2084 after 6 days on 21 February 2084 at 16:36.
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 ∠1769" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1040 of Meeus index or 1993 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes and it is 37 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 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 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 ∠33.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠58.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:33 about 11 days since last perigee on 4 February 2084 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 2 March 2084 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 864 km (251 571 mi) away from Earth. It is 544 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 845 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 4 February 2084 at 23:18 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 February 2084 at 23:12 in ♋ Cancer.
At 18:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.289°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.203° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 29 February 2084 at 15:44.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 21 February 2084 at 16:36 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