Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 2 December 2034 at 16:46.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2034 after 15 days on 25 December 2034 at 08:54.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 431 of Meeus index or 1384 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2034. 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 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 ∠168.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:00 about 13 days since last perigee on 25 November 2034 at 22:06 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 24 December 2034 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 406 607 km (252 654 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 199 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 102 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 3 December 2034 at 11:15 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 December 2034 at 02:21 in ♓ Pisces.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 27 November 2034 at 19:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.488° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.553° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 December 2034 at 00:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 10 December 2034 at 20:14 in ♐ Sagittarius 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