Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 January 2050 at 20:48.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2050 after 2 days on 6 February 2050 at 20:47.
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 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 619 of Meeus index or 1572 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes and it is 30 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 32 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 ∠350.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.4°.
11 days since point of perigee on 23 January 2050 at 18:50 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 February 2050 at 06:32 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 402 149 km (249 884 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 519 km (252 599 mi).
4 days after descending node on 31 January 2050 at 04:35 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 February 2050 at 20:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 1 February 2050 at 22:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.106° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.958° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 February 2050 at 15:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 6 February 2050 at 20:47 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