Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 29 December 2035 at 14:31.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2036 after 12 days on 13 January 2036 at 11:16.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 445 of Meeus index or 1398 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2035. 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 7 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 minute 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 ∠171° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠195.6°.
1 day since point of apogee on 30 December 2035 at 15:44 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 January 2036 at 08:47 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 035 km (251 677 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 519 km (221 531 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 19 December 2035 at 09:33 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 January 2036 at 18:21 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2035 at 15:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.326° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.295° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 January 2036 at 12:23 in ♋ Cancer.
12 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 12 days on 13 January 2036 at 11:16 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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