Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 29% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠6° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 14 January 2029 at 17:24.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2029 after 9 days on 30 January 2029 at 06:03.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 359 of Meeus index or 1312 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 7 minutes and it is 41 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 4 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠99.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠136.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 18:08 about 15 days since last perigee on 5 January 2029 at 04:16 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 1 February 2029 at 12:21 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 404 884 km (251 583 mi) away from Earth. It is 524 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 825 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 13 January 2029 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 January 2029 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 12 January 2029 at 00:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.199° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.172° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 January 2029 at 12:31 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 30 January 2029 at 06:03 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