Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 7 January 2046 at 04:24.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2046 after 11 days on 22 January 2046 at 12:51.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 569 of Meeus index or 1522 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 46 minutes and it is 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 6 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 ∠129.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 16:45 about 16 days since last perigee on 26 December 2045 at 14:47 in ♌ Leo 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 23 January 2046 at 19:02 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 530 km (251 985 mi) away from Earth. It is 122 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 179 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 9 January 2046 at 09:01 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 January 2046 at 06:24 in ♌ Leo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 5 January 2046 at 05:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.261° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.297° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 January 2046 at 18:56 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 22 January 2046 at 12:51 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