Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 23 January 2073 at 20:05.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2073 after 27 days on 22 February 2073 at 07:26.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:07 about 11 days since last apogee on 14 January 2073 at 02:24 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 10 February 2073 at 19:47 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 362 567 km (225 289 mi) away from Earth. It is 59 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 789 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 14:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 8 February 2073 at 00:44 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.043° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.012° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 February 2073 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 14:53 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 7 February 2073 at 01:40 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