Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 4 February 2091 at 04:46.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2091 after 28 days on 5 March 2091 at 15:59.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1126 of Meeus index or 2079 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 7 minutes and it is 1 hour shorter 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 4 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 40 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 ∠102° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠137.9°.
10 days since point of apogee on 25 January 2091 at 14:57 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 February 2091 at 09:12 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 366 949 km (228 012 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 106 km (225 624 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 23:52 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 19 February 2091 at 08:56 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 February 2091 at 06:49 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.537° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.496° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 February 2091 at 00:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 23:52 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 18 February 2091 at 09:38 in ♒ Aquarius 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