Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% 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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 20 January 2093 at 12:03.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2093 after 17 days on 11 February 2093 at 12:18.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" 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 1150 of Meeus index or 2103 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 31 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠6.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:37 about 15 days since last apogee on 10 January 2093 at 05:43 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 6 February 2093 at 19:24 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 359 956 km (223 666 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 552 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 400 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 13 January 2093 at 16:59 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2093 at 22:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 09:00 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.833°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2093. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.836° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 8 February 2093 at 00:49.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 27 January 2093 at 03:22 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