Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 December 2007 at 10:17.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2007 after 1 day on 24 December 2007 at 01:16.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 98 of Meeus index or 1051 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 50 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 50 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 ∠209.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠242.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:11 about 15 days since last apogee on 6 December 2007 at 16:54 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 3 January 2008 at 08:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 360 817 km (224 201 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 691 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 539 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 15 December 2007 at 13:15 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 December 2007 at 02:57 in ♌ Leo.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 10 December 2007 at 09:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.906° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.918° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 December 2007 at 14:26 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 24 December 2007 at 01:16 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