Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 23 January 2088 at 19:38.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2088 after 11 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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1871" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1089 of Meeus index or 2042 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 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 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠241.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.
7 days since point of apogee on 18 January 2088 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 February 2088 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 383 021 km (237 998 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 292 km (227 603 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 17 January 2088 at 02:46 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2088 at 03:49 in ♉ Taurus.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 20 January 2088 at 07:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.974° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.864° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2088 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days 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 11 days on 6 February 2088 at 21:33 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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