Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 24 January 2014 at 05:19.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2014 after 18 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 173 of Meeus index or 1126 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 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 ∠353° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.
11 days since point of apogee on 16 January 2014 at 01:53 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 30 January 2014 at 09:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 366 864 km (227 959 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 080 km (221 879 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 24 January 2014 at 02:55 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 February 2014 at 12:41 in ♉ Taurus.
At 16:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.396°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2014. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.306° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 9 February 2014 at 15:21.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 30 January 2014 at 21:39 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