Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 29 November 2096 at 21:34.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2096 after 27 days on 29 December 2096 at 08:23.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1198 of Meeus index or 2151 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 30 minutes and it is 36 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2096. 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 6 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 17 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 ∠169.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.2°.
1 day since point of perigee on 29 November 2096 at 19:43 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 December 2096 at 05:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 365 184 km (226 915 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 437 km (252 548 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 28 November 2096 at 18:48 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 December 2096 at 02:27 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 20:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.962°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.929° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 16 December 2096 at 01:02.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 14 December 2096 at 20:05 in ♐ Sagittarius 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
