Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 6 January 2061 at 02:24.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2061 after 24 days on 4 February 2061 at 15:22.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 754 of Meeus index or 1707 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours and 22 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 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠228.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.6°.
7 days since point of perigee on 3 January 2061 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini 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 15 January 2061 at 08:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 397 738 km (247 143 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 636 km (251 429 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 31 December 2060 at 13:55 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 January 2061 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 5 January 2061 at 06:43 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.997° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.037° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 January 2061 at 10:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 21 January 2061 at 15:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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