Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 20 January 2059 at 18:51.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2059 after 1 day on 28 January 2059 at 15:11.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 730 of Meeus index or 1683 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes and it is 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 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 ∠341.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
12 days since point of perigee on 15 January 2059 at 06:49 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 January 2059 at 13:03 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 402 070 km (249 835 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 368 km (252 505 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 23 January 2059 at 08:38 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 February 2059 at 23:45 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 26 January 2059 at 04:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.006° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.103° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2059 at 14:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 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 1 day on 28 January 2059 at 15:11 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