Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 9 January 2022 at 18:11.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2022 after 4 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 272 of Meeus index or 1225 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 13 minutes and it is 36 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 38 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 ∠13.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32°.
11 days since point of perigee on 1 January 2022 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 14 January 2022 at 09:27 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 704 km (251 471 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 806 km (252 156 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 04:19 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 January 2022 at 06:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 2 January 2022 at 13:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.304° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.310° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2022 at 10:16 in ♋ Cancer.
At 04:19 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 4 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49 in ♋ Cancer 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