Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% 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 ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 February 2085 at 14:36.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 3 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1052 of Meeus index or 2005 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 21 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 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 ∠0.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.7°.
11 days since point of perigee on 25 January 2085 at 18:46 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 February 2085 at 04:48 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 403 714 km (250 856 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 318 km (252 474 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 07:10 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 20 February 2085 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 February 2085 at 12:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.854° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.747° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2085 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24 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