Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 26 January 2049 at 21:33.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2049 after 16 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 28 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:51 about 15 days since last apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 13 February 2049 at 12:40 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 359 256 km (223 231 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 252 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 100 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 29 January 2049 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 February 2049 at 17:32 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 29 January 2049 at 19:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.806° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.719° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 February 2049 at 21:45 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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