Moon Phase Today - Lunar Calendar

Moon phase today

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent today: 12 February 2026, Thursday. The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Thursday5FebruaryWaning Gibbous♎ LibraFriday6FebruaryWaning Gibbous♎ LibraSaturday7FebruaryWaning Gibbous♎ LibraSunday8FebruaryWaning Gibbous♏ ScorpioMonday912:43Last Quarter♏ ScorpioTuesday10FebruaryWaning Crescent♐ SagittariusWednesday11FebruaryWaning Crescent♐ SagittariusThursdayTodayFebruaryWaning Crescent♐ SagittariusFriday13FebruaryWaning Crescent♑ CapricornSaturday14FebruaryWaning Crescent♑ CapricornSunday15FebruaryWaning Crescent♒ AquariusMonday16FebruaryWaning Crescent♒ AquariusTuesday1712:01New Moon♒ AquariusWednesday18FebruaryWaxing Crescent♓ PiscesThursday19FebruaryWaxing Crescent♓ Pisces

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

17February12:01New Moon♒ Aquarius24February12:28First Quarter♊ Gemini3March11:38Full Moon♍ Virgo11March09:39Last Quarter♐ Sagittarius

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Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 9 February 2026 at 12:43.

Worm Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2026 after 18 days on 3 March 2026 at 11:38.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide today. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1943".

Lunation 322 / 1275

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 322 of Meeus index or 1275 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.67 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 47 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for 02/12/2026

True anomaly ∠239°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠239° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276.3°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 10 February 2026 at 16:52 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 February 2026 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.

Last apogee | Next perigee

Distance to Moon 404 077 km

The Moon is 404 077 km (251 082 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 132 km (229 989 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 3 February 2026 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2026 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.

Last node | Next node

Moon at southern standstill

At 12:56 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.406°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.428° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 February 2026 at 23:23.

Previous standstill | Next standstill

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

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Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 17 February 2026 at 12:01 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.

Last syzygy | Next syzygy

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Sources and credits

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