Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 January 2006 at 15:14.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2006 after 16 days on 13 February 2006 at 04:44.
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 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 74 of Meeus index or 1027 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 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°).
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 ∠329.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.5°.
9 days since point of apogee on 17 January 2006 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo 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 30 January 2006 at 07:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 370 642 km (230 306 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 781 km (222 315 mi).
6 days after descending node on 20 January 2006 at 12:06 in ♎ Libra 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 2 February 2006 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries.
At 00:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.492°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.555° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 February 2006 at 18:18.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 29 January 2006 at 14:15 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