Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 4 January 2070 at 07:16.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2070 after 16 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59.
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 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 865 of Meeus index or 1818 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 5 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 2 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 ∠211.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 7 January 2070 at 04:45 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2070 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 401 185 km (249 285 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 854 km (227 953 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 5 January 2070 at 18:42 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 January 2070 at 18:41 in ♈ Aries.
At 01:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.284°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2070. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.199° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 23 January 2070 at 11:28.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 12 January 2070 at 11:22 in ♑ Capricorn 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