Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% 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 ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 19 January 2085 at 01:26.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 16 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 27 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°.
12 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2085 at 18:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 364 232 km (226 323 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 735 km (221 665 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 03:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 6 February 2085 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 January 2085 at 16:49 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.889° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.854° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 February 2085 at 12:06 in ♊ Gemini.
At 03:41 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 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
