Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 4 January 2047 at 05:31.
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2047 after 2 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1951".
Lunation 581 / 1534
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 581 of Meeus index or 1534 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 5 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠60.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠60.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.2°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 4 January 2047 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 January 2047 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 393 565 km(244 550 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 325 km(229 488 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 28 December 2046 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn 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 12 January 2047 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer.
At 16:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.065°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2047. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.072° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 January 2047 at 15:26.
In 2 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21 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.