Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 24 February 2089 at 22:05.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2089 after 26 days on 26 March 2089 at 09:20.
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 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1102 of Meeus index or 2055 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 46 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 4 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠211.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.3°.
4 days since point of perigee on 23 February 2089 at 04:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 March 2089 at 02:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 380 203 km (236 247 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 275 km (251 826 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 20:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 14 March 2089 at 09:03 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 20 February 2089 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.626° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.545° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 March 2089 at 03:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 20:38 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 12 March 2089 at 08:24 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