Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 22 January 2048 at 21:56.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2048 after 3 days on 31 January 2048 at 00:14.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 594 of Meeus index or 1547 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 59 minutes and it is 57 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 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 48 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 ∠37.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.6°.
2 days since point of apogee on 24 January 2048 at 21:24 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 February 2048 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 402 794 km (250 285 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 129 km (229 366 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 14 January 2048 at 05:27 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 January 2048 at 06:52 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 26 January 2048 at 19:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.528° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.460° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2048 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 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 3 days on 31 January 2048 at 00:14 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