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Moon phase on 9 December 2047 Monday is Waning Gibbous, 21 days old Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 2 December 2047 at 11:55.
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.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1948".
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2048 after 22 days on 1 January 2048 at 06:57.
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.
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 592 of Meeus index or 1545 from Brown series.
Length of current 592 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 593 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 4 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠2.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠18.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
8 days after point of apogee on 30 November 2047 at 16:36 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 December 2047 at 21:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon is 378 545 km (235 217 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 891 km (223 005 mi).
4 days after its descending node on 4 December 2047 at 17:15 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 December 2047 at 18:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
6 days after previous North standstill on 3 December 2047 at 05:15 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.550°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.562° in the next southern standstill on 16 December 2047 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 7 days on 16 December 2047 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.