Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 29 January 2027 at 10:55.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2027 after 18 days on 20 February 2027 at 23:23.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 334 of Meeus index or 1287 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 59 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2027. 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 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 15 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 ∠184.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.4°.
11 days since point of perigee on 21 January 2027 at 21:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 February 2027 at 13:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 479 km (251 332 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 189 km (252 394 mi).
9 days after descending node on 23 January 2027 at 17:26 in ♌ Leo 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 6 February 2027 at 21:44 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 02:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.706°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2027. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.710° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 16 February 2027 at 07:59.
22 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 4 days on 6 February 2027 at 15:56 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