Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 26 January 2049 at 21:33.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2049 after 19 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 606 of Meeus index or 1559 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. 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 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20°.
12 days since point of apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 February 2049 at 08:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 221 km (226 938 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 256 km (223 231 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 17:52 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 11 February 2049 at 17:32 in ♊ Gemini.
At 19:42 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.806°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.719° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 11 February 2049 at 21:45.
At 17:52 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 4 days on 2 February 2049 at 13:16 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
