Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% 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 passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 10 January 2049 at 21:56.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2049 after 3 days on 19 January 2049 at 02:29.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 606 of Meeus index or 1559 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20°.
11 days since point of perigee on 3 January 2049 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 891 km (250 966 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 228 km (252 418 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 14:48 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 29 January 2049 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 14:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.889°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2049. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.806° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 29 January 2049 at 19:42.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 19 January 2049 at 02:29 in ♋ Cancer 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