Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 about ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 17 February 2085 at 14:47.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2085 after 16 days on 11 March 2085 at 12:26.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1052 of Meeus index or 2005 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 21 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 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 ∠0.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:52 about 15 days since last apogee on 8 February 2085 at 04:48 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 7 March 2085 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 358 586 km (222 815 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 922 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 770 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 20 February 2085 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 March 2085 at 09:49 in ♋ Cancer.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 19 February 2085 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.747° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.652° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 March 2085 at 19:04 in ♊ Gemini.
3 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 1 day on 24 February 2085 at 06:32 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
