Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 15 January 2088 at 15:13.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2088 after 19 days on 6 February 2088 at 21:33.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1088 of Meeus index or 2041 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 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 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 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 ∠208.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:28 about 11 days since last perigee on 6 January 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 3 February 2088 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 230 km (251 798 mi) away from Earth. It is 178 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 479 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 17 January 2088 at 02:46 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2088 at 03:49 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 6 January 2088 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.031° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.974° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 January 2088 at 07:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 23 January 2088 at 19:38 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