Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% 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 ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 8 February 2094 at 12:45.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2094 after 17 days on 2 March 2094 at 07:35.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1163 of Meeus index or 2116 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 37 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 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 ∠352.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
12 days since point of apogee on 31 January 2094 at 11:51 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2094 at 18:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 365 325 km (227 002 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 191 km (221 948 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 12:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 February 2094 at 12:58 in ♋ Cancer.
At 06:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.529°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.582° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 25 February 2094 at 05:34.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 15 February 2094 at 05:43 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
