Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 24 December 2045 at 00:49.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2046 after 27 days on 22 January 2046 at 12:51.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 568 of Meeus index or 1521 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 3 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 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 ∠92.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:47 about 11 days since last apogee on 14 December 2045 at 21:16 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 11 January 2046 at 16:45 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 364 579 km (226 539 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 071 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 777 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 21:24 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 January 2046 at 09:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 23 December 2045 at 08:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.241° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.261° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 January 2046 at 05:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 7 January 2046 at 04:24 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
