Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 21 January 2044 at 23:47.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1948".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2044 after 16 days on 13 February 2044 at 06:42.
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.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 544 of Meeus index or 1497 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.6°.
2 days after point of apogee on 25 January 2044 at 09:32 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 10 February 2044 at 10:42 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 990 km (251 028 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 312 km (226 994 mi).
8 days after descending node on 18 January 2044 at 19:49 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2044 at 08:49 in ♓ Pisces.
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
1 day since the previous standstill on 26 January 2044 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.503°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.576° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 February 2044 at 10:49 in ♊ Gemini.
In 2 days on 30 January 2044 at 04:04 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.