Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 20 January 2036 at 06:46.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2036 after 17 days on 11 February 2036 at 22:09.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 445 of Meeus index or 1398 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2036. 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 7 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 minute 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 ∠171° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠195.6°.
12 days since point of perigee on 13 January 2036 at 08:47 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 26 January 2036 at 16:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 468 km (251 325 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 498 km (252 586 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 15 January 2036 at 16:39 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 January 2036 at 22:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 21:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.277°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.249° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 8 February 2036 at 23:26.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 28 January 2036 at 10:17 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
