Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 16 February 2096 at 10:39.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2096 after 18 days on 9 March 2096 at 01:37.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°).
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.
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°.
4 days 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 February 2096 at 11:38 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 989 km (244 813 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 489 km (226 483 mi).
2 days after descending node on 17 February 2096 at 03:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 March 2096 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini.
At 20:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.822°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.928° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 3 March 2096 at 15:30.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 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.
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