Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 passing about ∠6° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 17 January 2079 at 11:06.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2079 after 24 days on 15 February 2079 at 23:45.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 977 of Meeus index or 1930 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 32 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 4 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 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 ∠225.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261.8°.
7 days since point of perigee on 15 January 2079 at 03:12 in ♊ Gemini 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 26 January 2079 at 21:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 395 659 km (245 851 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 718 km (251 480 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 11 January 2079 at 23:02 in ♉ Taurus 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 24 January 2079 at 23:31 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 16 January 2079 at 00:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.561° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.617° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2079 at 00:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 1 February 2079 at 23:35 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