Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase on 16 December 2029 Sunday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Taurus.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 12 December 2029 at 17:49.
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.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2029 after 4 days on 20 December 2029 at 22:46.
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.
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 370 of Meeus index or 1323 from Brown series.
Length of current 370 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 371 length.
Length of current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 22 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠19.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠39.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 13:58, this is 12 days after last perigee on 4 December 2029 at 10:38 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 1 January 2030 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 520 km (251 978 mi) away from Earth. It is 112 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 189 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after its ascending node on 6 December 2029 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 December 2029 at 15:21 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
10 days after previous South standstill on 5 December 2029 at 21:50 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.574°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.577° in the next northern standstill on 20 December 2029 at 00:22 in ♊ Gemini.
After 4 days on 20 December 2029 at 22:46 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.