Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 28 January 2057 at 03:44.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2057 after 16 days on 19 February 2057 at 11:56.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 705 of Meeus index or 1658 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and it is 53 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 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 ∠26.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.7°.
1 day since point of perigee on 31 January 2057 at 18:59 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 February 2057 at 14:05 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 369 930 km (229 864 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 414 km (251 291 mi).
1 day after descending node on 1 February 2057 at 14:12 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 February 2057 at 14:03 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 February 2057 at 14:10 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.875° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.925° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 February 2057 at 14:48 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 3 February 2057 at 22:10 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
