Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% 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 passing about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 23 January 2071 at 02:16.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2071 after 17 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 ∠1768" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 27 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 27 January 2071 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 February 2071 at 17:21 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 478 km (251 952 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 15 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 680 km (224 738 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 21 January 2071 at 06:04 in ♎ Libra 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 4 February 2071 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 27 January 2071 at 15:29 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.432° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.333° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 February 2071 at 15:57 in ♊ Gemini.
7 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 2 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