Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 21 December 2035 at 16:29.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2036 after 17 days on 13 January 2036 at 11:16.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 444 of Meeus index or 1397 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes and it is 53 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 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 ∠144.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠171°.
10 days since point of perigee on 15 December 2035 at 19:38 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 December 2035 at 15:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 398 349 km (247 523 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 575 km (252 634 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 19 December 2035 at 09:33 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 January 2036 at 18:21 in ♒ Aquarius.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 December 2035 at 23:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.300° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.326° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 December 2035 at 15:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 29 December 2035 at 14:31 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