Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 44% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 21 December 2052 at 04:15.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2053 after 7 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 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 655 of Meeus index or 1608 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 38 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 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 ∠190.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.6°.
8 days since point of apogee on 20 December 2052 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2053 at 21:39 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 379 374 km (235 732 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 808 km (222 332 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 11:06 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 January 2053 at 21:36 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 21 December 2052 at 04:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.432° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.398° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 January 2053 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini.
14 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 7 days on 4 January 2053 at 17:46 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.
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