Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠20° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 25 December 2034 at 08:54.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2035 after 26 days on 23 January 2035 at 20:16.
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 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 432 of Meeus index or 1385 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 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 6 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 58 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 ∠192.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠220.5°.
4 days since point of perigee on 24 December 2034 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 January 2035 at 18:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 376 676 km (234 056 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 976 km (252 262 mi).
10 days after descending node on 18 December 2034 at 02:21 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 December 2034 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 25 December 2034 at 08:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.552° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.547° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 January 2035 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 9 January 2035 at 15:03 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