Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 7 January 2069 at 13:43.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2069 after 22 days on 6 February 2069 at 05:29.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 853 of Meeus index or 1806 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 11 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 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠279.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 12:33 about 27 days since last perigee on 17 December 2068 at 15:04 in ♎ Libra 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 26 January 2069 at 07:47 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 404 393 km (251 278 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 015 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 316 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 3 January 2069 at 11:40 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2069 at 13:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 5 January 2069 at 11:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.637° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.561° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 January 2069 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 23 January 2069 at 03:36 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