Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 3 March 2085 at 07:16.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2085 after 2 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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1053 of Meeus index or 2006 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. 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 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 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 ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 7 March 2085 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2085 at 12:19 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 404 402 km (251 284 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 064 km (225 598 mi).
4 days after descending node on 5 March 2085 at 09:49 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 March 2085 at 14:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 3 March 2085 at 19:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.652° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.502° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2085 at 07:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 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 2 days on 11 March 2085 at 12:26 in ♍ Virgo 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