Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 2 January 2037 at 02:35.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2037 after 28 days on 31 January 2037 at 14:04.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 457 of Meeus index or 1410 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 20 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 5 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 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 ∠113° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠146.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:29 about 11 days since last apogee on 23 December 2036 at 01:08 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 19 January 2037 at 17:43 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 361 542 km (224 652 mi) away from Earth. It is 966 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 814 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 20:54 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 17 January 2037 at 08:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 2 January 2037 at 00:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.593° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.586° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 January 2037 at 03:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 20:54 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 12 days on 16 January 2037 at 09:34 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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