Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 about ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 23 January 2075 at 23:32.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2075 after 2 days on 1 February 2075 at 04:13.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 928 of Meeus index or 1881 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes and it is 40 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 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠24.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.3°.
2 days since point of apogee on 27 January 2075 at 06:37 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 February 2075 at 07:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 403 855 km (250 944 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 747 km (227 265 mi).
12 days after descending node on 16 January 2075 at 13:41 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 January 2075 at 15:45 in ♋ Cancer.
At 16:46 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.824°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2075. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.860° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 12 February 2075 at 04:13.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 1 February 2075 at 04:13 in ♌ Leo 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