Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 January 2042 at 11:24.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2042 after 16 days on 5 February 2042 at 01:58.
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 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" 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 519 of Meeus index or 1472 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 1 hour and 39 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠300.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠326°.
7 days since point of apogee on 12 January 2042 at 04:04 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2042 at 22:31 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 381 607 km (237 120 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 798 km (225 432 mi).
4 days after descending node on 15 January 2042 at 03:00 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 January 2042 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries.
At 23:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.777°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2042. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.833° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 1 February 2042 at 18:31.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 21 January 2042 at 20:42 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