Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 13 December 2067 at 08:38.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2067 after 3 days on 20 December 2067 at 15:41.
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 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 840 of Meeus index or 1793 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 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 ∠307.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:55 about 7 days since last apogee on 10 December 2067 at 00:36 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 8 days until point of next apogee on 25 December 2067 at 23:56 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 357 950 km (222 420 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 558 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 406 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 6 December 2067 at 08:52 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 December 2067 at 07:06 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 6 December 2067 at 20:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.279° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.286° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 December 2067 at 19:23 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 20 December 2067 at 15:41 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
