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 passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 December 2062 at 16:57.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2063 after 13 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" 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 779 of Meeus index or 1732 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes and it is 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 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 ∠154.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.8°.
6 days since point of perigee on 26 December 2062 at 08:56 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2063 at 10:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 405 350 km (251 873 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 278 km (252 449 mi).
10 days after descending node on 21 December 2062 at 21:32 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 January 2063 at 05:33 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2062 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.306° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11 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
