Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 28 December 2054 at 23:52.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2055 after 13 days on 13 January 2055 at 11:21.
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 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 680 of Meeus index or 1633 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 47 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 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 5 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours 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 ∠109.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠143.9°.
11 days 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 January 2055 at 13:48 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 398 738 km (247 764 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 985 km (251 646 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 18 December 2054 at 23:30 in ♌ Leo 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 1 January 2055 at 10:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2054 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.763° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.742° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 January 2055 at 12:37 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days 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 13 days on 13 January 2055 at 11:21 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