Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 35% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 24 December 2032 at 20:39.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2033 after 20 days on 15 January 2033 at 13:07.
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 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 407 of Meeus index or 1360 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 23 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 ∠286.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 23 December 2032 at 11:34 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 January 2033 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 400 597 km (248 919 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 354 km (227 020 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 21:36 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 8 January 2033 at 18:31 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 16 December 2032 at 16:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.141° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.115° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 December 2032 at 03:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 21:36 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 5 days on 1 January 2033 at 10:17 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