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 ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 30 November 2060 at 23:11.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 1 day on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 753 of Meeus index or 1706 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 5 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 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 ∠199.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:57 about 15 days since last apogee on 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 18 December 2060 at 13:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 359 223 km (223 211 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 285 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 133 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 4 December 2060 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 December 2060 at 13:43 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.046° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.011° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 December 2060 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 7 December 2060 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini 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
