Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 3 February 2028 at 19:10.
Snow Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2028 after 5 days on 10 February 2028 at 15:04.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1889"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1946".
Lunation 347 / 1300
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 347 of Meeus index or 1300 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2028. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠161.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠161.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.5°.
Moon before perigee
7 days since point of apogee on 28 January 2028 at 15:31 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2028 at 19:53 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 379 413 km(235 756 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 678 km(221 629 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 26 January 2028 at 07:31 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 February 2028 at 08:56 in ♌ Leo.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 22 January 2028 at 21:35 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.616° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.601° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 February 2028 at 12:59 in ♊ Gemini.
In 5 days on 10 February 2028 at 15:04 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.