Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% 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 ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 30 January 2084 at 12:42.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2084 after 17 days on 21 February 2084 at 16:36.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1039 of Meeus index or 1992 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 36 minutes and it is 35 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 1 hour and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠15° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:46 about 15 days since last apogee on 19 January 2084 at 04:48 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 15 February 2084 at 22:33 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 362 658 km (225 345 mi) away from Earth. It is 150 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 698 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 23:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 February 2084 at 23:12 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 2 February 2084 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.324° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.289° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 February 2084 at 18:41 in ♊ Gemini.
At 23:18 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day on 6 February 2084 at 04:53 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