Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 8 January 2073 at 08:11.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2073 after 12 days on 23 January 2073 at 20:05.
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 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" 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 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°.
13 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 January 2073 at 02:24 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 402 848 km (250 318 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 891 km (251 588 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 18:17 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 January 2073 at 14:53 in ♌ Leo.
4 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 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.043° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 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