Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 about ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 28 December 2031 at 17:33.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2032 after 27 days on 27 January 2032 at 12:52.
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 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 395 of Meeus index or 1348 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2031. 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 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 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 ∠334.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:16 about 15 days since last perigee on 15 December 2031 at 21:31 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 13 January 2032 at 07:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 203 km (252 403 mi) away from Earth. It is 795 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 506 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 24 December 2031 at 18:44 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 January 2032 at 08:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 27 December 2031 at 07:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.355° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.298° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 January 2032 at 16:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 12 January 2032 at 20:07 in ♑ Capricorn 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