Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 14 January 2078 at 01:14.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2078 after 9 days on 28 January 2078 at 01:33.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 965 of Meeus index or 1918 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 2 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 ∠294.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:32 about 12 days since last apogee on 6 January 2078 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 3 February 2078 at 05:07 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 369 308 km (229 477 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 800 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 048 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 9 January 2078 at 15:53 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 January 2078 at 17:10 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 12 January 2078 at 21:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.463° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.499° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 January 2078 at 19:02 in ♋ Cancer.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 28 January 2078 at 01:33 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