Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% 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 ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 30 November 2022 at 14:36.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2022 after 2 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08.
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 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 283 of Meeus index or 1236 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes and it is 44 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 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 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 ∠325.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344.3°.
9 days since point of perigee on 26 November 2022 at 01:30 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 389 669 km (242 129 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 869 km (252 195 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 12:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 December 2022 at 01:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 26 November 2022 at 08:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.471° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.432° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 December 2022 at 21:22 in ♋ Cancer.
At 12:39 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 2 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08 in ♊ Gemini 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