Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 19% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 about ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 20 December 2046 at 14:43.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2047 after 19 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21.
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 ∠1963" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 580 of Meeus index or 1533 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 49 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 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 ∠35.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠60.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:06 about 15 days since last apogee on 7 December 2046 at 12:36 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 4 January 2047 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 368 619 km (229 049 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 111 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 737 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 16 December 2046 at 00:01 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 December 2046 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 13 December 2046 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.034° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.050° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2046 at 08:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 27 December 2046 at 10:39 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