Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 18 January 2064 at 12:37.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2064 after 10 days on 2 February 2064 at 21:37.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 792 of Meeus index or 1745 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 5 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 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 ∠125.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:31 about 16 days since last perigee on 7 January 2064 at 03:30 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 4 February 2064 at 06:21 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 424 km (251 919 mi) away from Earth. It is 16 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 285 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 20 January 2064 at 17:11 in ♒ Aquarius 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 3 February 2064 at 15:20 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 15 January 2064 at 20:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.815° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.857° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 January 2064 at 10:58 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 February 2064 at 21:37 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