Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase on 31 January 2073 Tuesday is Waning Crescent, 23 days old Moon is in Scorpio.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 30 January 2073 at 12:18.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1947".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2073 after 21 days on 22 February 2073 at 07:26.
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.
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 903 of Meeus index or 1856 from Brown series.
Length of current 903 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 904 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠105.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠140.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
5 days after point of perigee on 25 January 2073 at 21:07 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 February 2073 at 19:47 in ♓ Pisces.
Moon is 372 225 km (231 290 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 844 km (252 180 mi).
5 days after its ascending node on 25 January 2073 at 14:53 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 February 2073 at 00:44 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
9 days after previous North standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.043°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.012° in the next southern standstill on 3 February 2073 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 6 days on 7 February 2073 at 01:40 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.