Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 1 March 2092 at 00:46.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2092 after 21 days on 23 March 2092 at 17:15.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1139 of Meeus index or 2092 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes and it is 51 minutes 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 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 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 ∠69.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.4°.
4 days since point of perigee on 27 February 2092 at 05:27 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 March 2092 at 23:06 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 367 357 km (228 265 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 930 km (251 612 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 22 February 2092 at 09:49 in ♌ Leo 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 6 March 2092 at 07:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 23:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.447°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.509° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 17 March 2092 at 07:54.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 8 March 2092 at 05:56 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
