Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 26 December 2057 at 01:22.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2058 after 13 days on 9 January 2058 at 20:39.
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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 717 of Meeus index or 1670 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 10 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2057. 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠355.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 26 December 2057 at 07:44 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 January 2058 at 06:58 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 814 km (226 064 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 377 km (252 511 mi).
2 days after descending node on 25 December 2057 at 08:50 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 January 2058 at 16:37 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 26 December 2057 at 12:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.515° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.506° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 January 2058 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 9 January 2058 at 20:39 in ♋ Cancer 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
