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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 6 December 2096 at 16:07.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2096 after 15 days on 29 December 2096 at 08:23.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:28 about 13 days since last perigee on 29 November 2096 at 19:43 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 28 December 2096 at 08:21 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 406 437 km (252 548 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 029 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 272 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 12 December 2096 at 02:27 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 December 2096 at 04:11 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 1 December 2096 at 20:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.962° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.929° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 December 2096 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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
