Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 8 February 2094 at 12:45.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2094 after 15 days on 2 March 2094 at 07:35.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1163 of Meeus index or 2116 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 37 minutes longer 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 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 ∠352.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:39 about 14 days since last apogee on 31 January 2094 at 11:51 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 27 February 2094 at 15:03 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 357 191 km (221 948 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 317 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 165 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 12 February 2094 at 12:56 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 February 2094 at 12:58 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 12 February 2094 at 06:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.529° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.582° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 February 2094 at 05:34 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 15 February 2094 at 05:43 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
