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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 11 January 2087 at 22:31.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2087 after 4 days on 18 January 2087 at 22:11.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1076 of Meeus index or 2029 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 25 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 hour and 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 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 ∠275.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠308.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 12 January 2087 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 January 2087 at 01:01 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 366 459 km (227 707 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 340 km (251 245 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 20:43 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 28 January 2087 at 21:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 2 January 2087 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.607° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.560° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 January 2087 at 23:21 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 18 January 2087 at 22:11 in ♋ Cancer 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