Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 9 January 2058 at 20:39 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2058.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 717 of Meeus index or 1670 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 10 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2058. 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠355.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:58 about 13 days since last perigee on 26 December 2057 at 07:44 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 23 January 2058 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 377 km (252 511 mi) away from Earth. It is 969 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 332 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 7 January 2058 at 16:37 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 January 2058 at 19:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 03:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.506°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2058. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.534° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 22 January 2058 at 23:21.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming 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