Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 10 February 2053 at 13:49.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2053 after 19 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 656 of Meeus index or 1609 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes and it is 2 hours and 39 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 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 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 ∠217.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠251.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:22 about 11 days since last perigee on 1 February 2053 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 28 February 2053 at 20:20 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 405 090 km (251 711 mi) away from Earth. It is 318 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 619 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 6 February 2053 at 03:39 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2053 at 15:44 in ♓ Pisces.
At 20:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.230°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.174° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 27 February 2053 at 13:41.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 18 February 2053 at 16:31 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
