Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Worm Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2096 after 21 days on 9 March 2096 at 01:37.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1942".
Lunation 1188 / 2141
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1188 of Meeus index or 2141 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes and it is 2 hours and 18 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠291.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠291.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.2°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 14 February 2096 at 17:34 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 February 2096 at 11:38 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 403 596 km(250 783 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 489 km(226 483 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 3 February 2096 at 02:17 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 February 2096 at 03:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 5 February 2096 at 10:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.721° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.822° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2096 at 20:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 7 days on 23 February 2096 at 22:28 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.