Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 25 January 2083 at 21:03.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2083 after 1 day on 2 February 2083 at 18:20.
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 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1027 of Meeus index or 1980 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 1 hour and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 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 ∠55.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.1°.
6 days since point of apogee on 26 January 2083 at 10:16 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 February 2083 at 11:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 389 460 km (241 999 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 927 km (229 862 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 19 January 2083 at 14:07 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 February 2083 at 00:47 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 29 January 2083 at 19:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.490° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.496° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 February 2083 at 23:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 2 February 2083 at 18:20 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