Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 6 December 2052 at 07:18.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2053 after 28 days on 4 January 2053 at 17:46.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 654 of Meeus index or 1607 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 13 minutes and it is 16 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2052. 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 34 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 ∠165.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.2°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 December 2052 at 08:52 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 December 2052 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 363 999 km (226 178 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 649 km (252 680 mi).
6 days after descending node on 1 December 2052 at 09:24 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 December 2052 at 19:44 in ♍ Virgo.
At 06:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.396°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.432° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 21 December 2052 at 04:09.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 21 December 2052 at 04:15 in ♐ Sagittarius 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