Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 2 January 2098 at 14:32.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2098 after 13 days on 17 January 2098 at 10:36.
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 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1212 of Meeus index or 2165 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. 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 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠172.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197°.
Moon is at apogee at 11:59 about 14 days since last perigee on 19 December 2097 at 17:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 17 January 2098 at 06:41 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 688 km (252 704 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2098. It is 1 280 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 21 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 27 December 2097 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 January 2098 at 08:24 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 January 2098 at 23:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.839° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.895° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 January 2098 at 22:37 in ♊ Gemini.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 17 January 2098 at 10:36 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