Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 31 January 2058 at 10:28.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2058 after 2 days on 8 February 2058 at 15:54.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 718 of Meeus index or 1671 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes and it is 11 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 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 ∠10.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 5 February 2058 at 12:03 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 February 2058 at 06:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 405 328 km (251 859 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 268 km (224 482 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 3 February 2058 at 20:37 in ♊ Gemini 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 18 February 2058 at 00:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 5 February 2058 at 09:27 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.565° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.665° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2058 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 8 February 2058 at 15:54 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