Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 8 January 2067 at 17:01.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2067 after 15 days on 30 January 2067 at 10:29.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 828 of Meeus index or 1781 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2067. 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 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 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 ∠346.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.4°.
12 days since point of apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2067 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 593 km (225 926 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 756 km (221 678 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 13 January 2067 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2067 at 22:59 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 13 January 2067 at 00:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.918° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.887° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 January 2067 at 00:50 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 15 January 2067 at 11:17 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