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 first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 January 2080 at 21:40.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2080 after 17 days on 5 February 2080 at 12:21.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 989 of Meeus index or 1942 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2080. 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 6 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 23 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 ∠174.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:45 about 13 days since last perigee on 6 January 2080 at 19:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 4 February 2080 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 533 km (252 608 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2080. It is 1 125 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 176 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 13 January 2080 at 09:00 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 January 2080 at 00:20 in ♈ Aries.
At 15:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.251°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2080. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.345° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 2 February 2080 at 14:34.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 22 January 2080 at 01:55 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
