Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 22 February 2094 at 02:36.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2094 after 3 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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1164 of Meeus index or 2117 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 8 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 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 26 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 ∠7.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.6°.
11 days since point of perigee on 14 February 2094 at 18:39 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 February 2094 at 15:03 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 460 km (251 320 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 118 km (252 350 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 25 February 2094 at 12:58 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 March 2094 at 18:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 25 February 2094 at 05:34 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.582° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.707° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 March 2094 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 2 March 2094 at 07:35 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