Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 25 February 2087 at 17:06.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2087 after 18 days on 19 March 2087 at 06:09.
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 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1077 of Meeus index or 2030 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.8°.
5 days since point of apogee on 22 February 2087 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 March 2087 at 18:05 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 389 733 km (242 169 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 586 km (224 679 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 25 February 2087 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 9 March 2087 at 22:37 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 26 February 2087 at 16:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.215° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.096° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 March 2087 at 11:26 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 4 March 2087 at 23:45 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