Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 passing about ∠21° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2063 after 27 days on 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 779 of Meeus index or 1732 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes and it is 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 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 ∠154.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 15 January 2063 at 06:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 January 2063 at 13:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 655 km (225 965 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 600 km (252 650 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 5 January 2063 at 05:33 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 January 2063 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.364° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.406° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2063 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 29 January 2063 at 12:23 in ♒ Aquarius 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