Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 17 January 2077 at 09:09.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2077 after 16 days on 7 February 2077 at 23:08.
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 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 952 of Meeus index or 1905 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 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 ∠319.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
8 days since point of apogee on 13 January 2077 at 15:13 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2077 at 18:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 373 910 km (232 337 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 336 km (223 281 mi).
1 day after descending node on 21 January 2077 at 03:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2077 at 17:16 in ♊ Gemini.
At 20:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.115°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2077. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.148° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 4 February 2077 at 17:05.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 24 January 2077 at 12:45 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