Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 75% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 14 December 2054 at 22:41.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2055 after 24 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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 19 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 18 December 2054 at 16:08 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 January 2055 at 13:48 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 738 km (226 016 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 985 km (251 646 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 18 December 2054 at 23:30 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 January 2055 at 10:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 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 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.763° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 December 2054 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 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