Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 4 March 2087 at 23:45.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2087 after 12 days on 19 March 2087 at 06:09.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1078 of Meeus index or 2031 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 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 ∠330.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:05 about 11 days since last apogee on 22 February 2087 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 22 March 2087 at 11:38 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 361 586 km (224 679 mi) away from Earth. It is 922 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 770 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 25 February 2087 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 9 March 2087 at 22:37 in ♉ Taurus.
7 days 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 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.096° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 March 2087 at 11:26 in ♊ Gemini.
9 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 12 days on 19 March 2087 at 06:09 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