Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 21 January 2099 at 09:07.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2099 after 12 days on 5 February 2099 at 12:48.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1225 of Meeus index or 2178 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2099. 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 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 ∠149° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 12:47 about 15 days since last perigee on 8 January 2099 at 18:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 6 February 2099 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 101 km (252 339 mi) away from Earth. It is 693 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 608 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 12 January 2099 at 15:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 January 2099 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 18 January 2099 at 22:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.389° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.479° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2099 at 10:56 in ♋ Cancer.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 5 February 2099 at 12:48 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