Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 12 February 2097 at 07:49.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2097 after 11 days on 26 February 2097 at 08:02.
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 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1201 of Meeus index or 2154 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 hour and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 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 ∠257.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠293.2°.
8 days since point of apogee on 6 February 2097 at 09:39 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 February 2097 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 380 760 km (236 593 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 662 km (229 076 mi).
10 days after descending node on 4 February 2097 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2097 at 08:27 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 8 February 2097 at 13:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.061° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.174° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 February 2097 at 00:30 in ♋ Cancer.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 26 February 2097 at 08:02 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