Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 29 January 2080 at 21:37.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2080 after 4 days on 5 February 2080 at 12:21.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 990 of Meeus index or 1943 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes and it is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2080. 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 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 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 ∠199.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.8°.
12 days since point of apogee on 19 January 2080 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2080 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 365 061 km (226 838 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 104 km (223 137 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 28 January 2080 at 00:20 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 February 2080 at 12:47 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 19 January 2080 at 15:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.251° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.345° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2080 at 14:34 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 5 February 2080 at 12:21 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