Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 33% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 26 January 2049 at 21:33.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2049 after 20 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 606 of Meeus index or 1559 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20°.
11 days since point of apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 February 2049 at 08:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 367 843 km (228 567 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 256 km (223 231 mi).
12 days after descending node on 15 January 2049 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 January 2049 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 15 January 2049 at 14:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.889° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.806° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2049 at 19:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 2 February 2049 at 13:16 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