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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 23 January 2071 at 02:16.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2071 after 18 days on 14 February 2071 at 13:33.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 878 of Meeus index or 1831 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2071. 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 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 ∠187.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 21:04 about 12 days since last perigee on 15 January 2071 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 12 February 2071 at 17:21 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 168 km (252 381 mi) away from Earth. It is 760 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 541 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 21 January 2071 at 06:04 in ♎ Libra 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 4 February 2071 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries.
At 15:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.432°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.333° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 10 February 2071 at 15:57.
6 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 3 days on 31 January 2071 at 07:16 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
