Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 14 December 2054 at 22:41.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2055 after 25 days on 13 January 2055 at 11:21.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 679 of Meeus index or 1632 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 29 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠72.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 16:08 about 11 days since last apogee on 6 December 2054 at 16:51 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 3 January 2055 at 13:48 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 367 712 km (228 486 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 204 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 644 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 23:30 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 1 January 2055 at 10:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 16 December 2054 at 01:47 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.747° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.763° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 December 2054 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 23:30 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 10 days on 28 December 2054 at 23:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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
