Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% 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 ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 24 January 2098 at 05:58.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2098 after 16 days on 15 February 2098 at 21:00.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1212 of Meeus index or 2165 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. 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 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠172.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197°.
Moon is at apogee at 12:32 about 13 days since last perigee on 17 January 2098 at 06:41 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 14 February 2098 at 18:30 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 584 km (252 640 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 176 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 125 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 23 January 2098 at 17:32 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 February 2098 at 09:03 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 January 2098 at 04:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.941° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.051° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 February 2098 at 08:06 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 1 February 2098 at 09:54 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