Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 38% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 30 January 2008 at 05:03.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2008 after 20 days on 21 February 2008 at 03:31.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 99 of Meeus index or 1052 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 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 3 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 40 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 ∠242.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280°.
Moon is at apogee at 04:26 about 11 days since last perigee on 19 January 2008 at 08:39 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 14 February 2008 at 01:07 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 532 km (251 365 mi) away from Earth. It is 876 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 177 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 24 January 2008 at 10:49 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 February 2008 at 21:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 19 January 2008 at 23:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.985° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.025° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 February 2008 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 7 February 2008 at 03:44 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