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 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 27 January 2068 at 14:27.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2068 after 17 days on 18 February 2068 at 04:38.
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 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1916" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 841 of Meeus index or 1794 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 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 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 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 ∠331.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.6°.
8 days since point of apogee on 22 January 2068 at 15:47 in ♍ Virgo 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 4 February 2068 at 05:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 374 169 km (232 498 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 542 km (222 166 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 30 January 2068 at 02:06 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 February 2068 at 13:12 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 30 January 2068 at 17:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.138° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.052° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 February 2068 at 08:19 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 3 days on 3 February 2068 at 13:44 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