Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 January 2005 at 06:58.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 2 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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
12 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 354 km (251 254 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 444 km (252 553 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 17 January 2005 at 07:32 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2005 at 22:49 in ♎ Libra.
At 19:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.973°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2005. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.071° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 February 2005 at 21:10.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 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