Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 25% 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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 6 February 2086 at 22:30.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2086 after 19 days on 28 February 2086 at 12:21.
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 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1064 of Meeus index or 2017 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 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 ∠329.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347°.
7 days since point of apogee on 2 February 2086 at 04:51 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2086 at 16:44 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 381 429 km (237 009 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 829 km (222 345 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 10:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 21 February 2086 at 21:51 in ♊ Gemini.
At 06:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.132°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.034° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 21 February 2086 at 19:36.
At 10:38 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 13 February 2086 at 22:27 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
