Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 January 2088 at 17:54.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2088 after 1 day on 8 January 2088 at 09:37.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1088 of Meeus index or 2041 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 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 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 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 ∠208.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:17 about 15 days since last apogee on 22 December 2087 at 02:07 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 January 2088 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 360 758 km (224 165 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 750 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 598 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2088 at 02:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 13:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.031°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2088. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.974° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 20 January 2088 at 07:04.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 8 January 2088 at 09:37 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
