Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 17 January 2058 at 19:43.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2058 after 18 days on 8 February 2058 at 15:54.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 717 of Meeus index or 1670 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 10 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2058. 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠355.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.9°.
12 days since point of apogee on 9 January 2058 at 06:58 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2058 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 155 km (226 897 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 538 km (222 164 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 19:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 February 2058 at 20:37 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 9 January 2058 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.506° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.534° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 January 2058 at 23:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 24 January 2058 at 12:14 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