Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 4 February 2051 at 01:40.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2051 after 18 days on 25 February 2051 at 14:53.
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 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 631 of Meeus index or 1584 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 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 ∠313.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.7°.
6 days since point of apogee on 31 January 2051 at 19:46 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 February 2051 at 18:54 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 384 542 km (238 943 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 557 km (224 040 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 3 February 2051 at 07:49 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 February 2051 at 04:27 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 6 February 2051 at 23:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.572° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.472° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2051 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 11 February 2051 at 06:41 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