Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 37% 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 February 2078 at 03:00.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2078 after 20 days on 26 February 2078 at 17:50.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 965 of Meeus index or 1918 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 2 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 ∠294.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.6°.
3 days since point of apogee on 3 February 2078 at 05:07 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2078 at 23:02 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 399 567 km (248 279 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 913 km (226 125 mi).
1 day after descending node on 5 February 2078 at 19:13 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2078 at 17:22 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 January 2078 at 19:02 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.499° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.587° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2078 at 06:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 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 6 days on 12 February 2078 at 13:59 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