Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% 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 ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 2 February 2043 at 04:14.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2043 after 17 days on 23 February 2043 at 21:58.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 532 of Meeus index or 1485 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 33 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 ∠269.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303°.
4 days since point of apogee on 1 February 2043 at 17:22 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 February 2043 at 17:40 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 394 411 km (245 076 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 963 km (228 642 mi).
7 days after descending node on 30 January 2043 at 09:53 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 February 2043 at 07:12 in ♈ Aries.
At 04:21 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.451°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.529° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 February 2043 at 03:26.
20 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 3 days on 9 February 2043 at 21:07 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