Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 4 February 2021 at 17:37.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2021 after 18 days on 27 February 2021 at 08:17.
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 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 260 of Meeus index or 1213 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes and it is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 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 ∠53.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠87°.
4 days since point of perigee on 3 February 2021 at 19:33 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 February 2021 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 067 km (231 192 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 467 km (251 324 mi).
1 day after descending node on 7 February 2021 at 00:29 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 February 2021 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini.
At 15:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.953°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.056° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 23 February 2021 at 00:12.
14 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 3 days on 11 February 2021 at 19:06 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
