Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% 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 passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 19 January 2085 at 01:26.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 18 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
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 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1051 of Meeus index or 2004 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 34 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. 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 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 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 ∠345.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.9°.
10 days since point of apogee on 12 January 2085 at 05:03 in ♌ Leo 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 2085 at 18:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 369 443 km (229 561 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 735 km (221 665 mi).
12 days after descending node on 10 January 2085 at 01:55 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2085 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 16:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.889°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2085. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.854° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 4 February 2085 at 12:06.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 25 January 2085 at 20:06 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