Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 10 January 2005 at 12:03.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 8 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. 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 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 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 ∠1.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.1°.
6 days since point of perigee on 10 January 2005 at 10:07 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 382 481 km (237 663 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 444 km (252 553 mi).
11 days after descending node on 4 January 2005 at 21:52 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2005 at 07:32 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.938° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.973° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 January 2005 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32 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