Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 28 February 2084 at 21:04.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2084 after 20 days on 22 March 2084 at 06:48.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
14 days since point of apogee on 15 February 2084 at 22:33 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 March 2084 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 374 km (225 790 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 159 km (228 763 mi).
11 days after descending node on 18 February 2084 at 23:12 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 March 2084 at 06:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 February 2084 at 15:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.203° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.104° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 March 2084 at 02:47 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 6 March 2084 at 17:04 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