Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 26 January 2021 Tuesday is Waxing Gibbous, 12 days young Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 20 January 2021 at 21:02.
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.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1949".
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2021 after 2 days on 28 January 2021 at 19:16.
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.
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 260 of Meeus index or 1213 from Brown series.
Length of current 260 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 261 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠87°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
4 days after point of apogee on 21 January 2021 at 13:11 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 February 2021 at 19:33 in ♎ Libra.
Moon is 394 571 km (245 175 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 370 127 km (229 986 mi).
1 day after its ascending node on 24 January 2021 at 21:47 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 February 2021 at 00:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
At 15:39 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.898°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2021. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.953° in its southern standstill point on 8 February 2021 at 15:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 2 days on 28 January 2021 at 19:16 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.