Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 passing about ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 January 2065 at 19:15.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2065 after 12 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 804 of Meeus index or 1757 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠57.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.
6 days since point of perigee on 2 January 2065 at 20:34 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 January 2065 at 21:51 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 391 802 km (243 454 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 429 km (251 301 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 8 January 2065 at 05:38 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2065 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 5 January 2065 at 00:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.815° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.834° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 January 2065 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 12 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53 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