Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 first ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 January 2073 at 08:11.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2073 after 14 days on 23 January 2073 at 20:05.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 903 of Meeus index or 1856 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 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 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 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 ∠105.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.9°.
11 days since point of perigee on 29 December 2072 at 06:59 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 January 2073 at 02:24 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 396 776 km (246 545 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 891 km (251 588 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 29 December 2072 at 08:37 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 January 2073 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 7 January 2073 at 10:43 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.079° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.043° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 23 January 2073 at 20:05 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
