Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 8 February 2075 at 12:41.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2075 after 21 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 928 of Meeus index or 1881 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 29 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 ∠24.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.3°.
13 days since point of apogee on 27 January 2075 at 06:37 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 February 2075 at 07:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 364 020 km (226 192 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 747 km (227 265 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 30 January 2075 at 15:45 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 February 2075 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 29 January 2075 at 16:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.824° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.860° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 February 2075 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 15 February 2075 at 06:40 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