Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 about ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 13 January 2002 at 13:29.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2002 after 10 days on 28 January 2002 at 22:50.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 25 of Meeus index or 978 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes and it is 10 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 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 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 ∠123.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:50 about 16 days since last perigee on 2 January 2002 at 07:13 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 30 January 2002 at 09:02 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 503 km (251 968 mi) away from Earth. It is 95 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 206 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 11 January 2002 at 11:56 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 26 January 2002 at 00:27 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 12 January 2002 at 15:26 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.240° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.270° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 January 2002 at 01:56 in ♋ Cancer.
19 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 10 days on 28 January 2002 at 22:50 in ♌ Leo 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