Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 2 February 2089 at 10:23.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2089 after 17 days on 24 February 2089 at 22:05.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1101 of Meeus index or 2054 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 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 ∠185.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:18 about 12 days since last perigee on 25 January 2089 at 19:36 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 23 February 2089 at 04:43 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 252 km (252 433 mi) away from Earth. It is 844 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 457 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 31 January 2089 at 14:33 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 February 2089 at 05:13 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 5 February 2089 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.740° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.626° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 February 2089 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 10 February 2089 at 15:16 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