Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 17 December 2036 at 15:34.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2037 after 14 days on 2 January 2037 at 02:35.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1805" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 457 of Meeus index or 1410 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 20 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 5 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 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 ∠113° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠146.7°.
11 days since point of perigee on 7 December 2036 at 01:52 in ♌ Leo 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 23 December 2036 at 01:08 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 397 138 km (246 770 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 081 km (251 706 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 7 December 2036 at 14:24 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 21 December 2036 at 02:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 19:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.597°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2036. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.593° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 2 January 2037 at 00:56.
10 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 14 days on 2 January 2037 at 02:35 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