Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 31 January 2035 at 06:02.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2035 after 17 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 433 of Meeus index or 1386 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes and it is 2 hours and 32 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 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 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 ∠220.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.7°.
1 day since point of apogee on 2 February 2035 at 12:48 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 February 2035 at 05:31 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 017 km (251 045 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 326 km (228 867 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 26 January 2035 at 19:11 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 February 2035 at 07:03 in ♓ Pisces.
At 16:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.448°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.402° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 18 February 2035 at 04:16.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 8 February 2035 at 08:22 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
