Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 6 January 2078 at 05:04.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2078 after 18 days on 28 January 2078 at 01:33.
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 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 964 of Meeus index or 1917 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 39 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 ∠258.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.9°.
3 days since point of apogee on 6 January 2078 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 January 2078 at 18:32 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 400 660 km (248 959 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 308 km (229 477 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 15:53 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 January 2078 at 17:10 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 29 December 2077 at 11:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.449° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.463° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2078 at 21:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 14 January 2078 at 01:14 in ♑ Capricorn 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