Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 14 January 2082 at 18:11.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2082 after 26 days on 13 February 2082 at 06:16.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1014 of Meeus index or 1967 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 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 ∠84.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠122.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 16:31 about 11 days since last apogee on 5 January 2082 at 22:19 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 2 February 2082 at 18:11 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 365 690 km (227 229 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 182 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 666 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 15:31 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 31 January 2082 at 01:22 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 12 January 2082 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.182° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.230° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2082 at 12:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 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 11 days on 28 January 2082 at 20:46 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
