Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 9 January 2071 at 11:08.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2071 after 1 day on 16 January 2071 at 02:35.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
13 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2071 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 308 km (225 749 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 535 km (222 162 mi).
5 days after descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2071 at 06:04 in ♎ Libra.
At 05:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.487°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2071. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.432° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 27 January 2071 at 15:29.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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