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 ∠17° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 1 January 2071 at 12:15.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2071 after 11 days on 16 January 2071 at 02:35.
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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" 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 878 of Meeus index or 1831 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2071. 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 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 ∠187.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
3 days since point of apogee on 31 December 2070 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2071 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 399 174 km (248 035 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 535 km (222 162 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 25 December 2070 at 04:13 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 31 December 2070 at 07:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.553° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.487° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 January 2071 at 05:41 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 16 January 2071 at 02:35 in ♋ Cancer 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