Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 10 January 2026 at 15:48.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2026 after 15 days on 1 February 2026 at 22:09.
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 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 321 of Meeus index or 1274 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 5 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 38 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 ∠207° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠239°.
3 days since point of apogee on 13 January 2026 at 20:48 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 January 2026 at 21:53 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 400 334 km (248 756 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 878 km (227 346 mi).
10 days after descending node on 7 January 2026 at 11:22 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 January 2026 at 00:03 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 16 January 2026 at 05:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.302° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.361° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 January 2026 at 17:02 in ♊ Gemini.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 18 January 2026 at 19:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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