Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 17 January 2039 at 18:42.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2039 after 18 days on 9 February 2039 at 03:39.
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 ∠1961" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 482 of Meeus index or 1435 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 7 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 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠51.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:35 about 16 days since last apogee on 5 January 2039 at 05:10 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 2 February 2039 at 01:38 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 366 856 km (227 954 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 348 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 500 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 8 January 2039 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2039 at 05:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 9 January 2039 at 20:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.878° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.890° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 January 2039 at 23:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 24 January 2039 at 13:36 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