Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% 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 ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 26 January 2030 at 18:14.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2030 after 19 days on 18 February 2030 at 06:20.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" 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 371 of Meeus index or 1324 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter 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 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 29 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 ∠39.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67.6°.
1 day since point of perigee on 28 January 2030 at 16:03 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 February 2030 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 365 621 km (227 186 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 292 km (251 215 mi).
12 days after descending node on 16 January 2030 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 January 2030 at 03:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 16:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.491°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.393° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 February 2030 at 17:24.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 2 February 2030 at 16:07 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