Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 11 December 2051 at 00:07.
Cold Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2051 after 5 days on 17 December 2051 at 16:05.
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 ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1949".
Lunation 642 / 1595
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 642 of Meeus index or 1595 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠214.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠214.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.4°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 29 November 2051 at 23:42 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 December 2051 at 19:57 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 365 292 km(226 982 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 745 km(224 778 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 29 November 2051 at 08:08 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 December 2051 at 08:09 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 4 December 2051 at 11:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.781° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.789° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 December 2051 at 14:21 in ♊ Gemini.
In 5 days on 17 December 2051 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini 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.