Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 1 January 2084 at 01:54.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2084 after 16 days on 22 January 2084 at 23:15.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1038 of Meeus index or 1991 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 44 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠359.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠15°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:08 about 14 days since last apogee on 22 December 2083 at 20:30 in ♊ Gemini 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 19 January 2084 at 04:48 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 358 232 km (222 595 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 276 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 124 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 26 December 2083 at 09:52 in ♋ Cancer 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 8 January 2084 at 12:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 00:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.325°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2084. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.337° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 January 2084 at 11:14.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 7 January 2084 at 17:17 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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
