Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 about ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 15 December 2058 at 16:12.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2058 after 12 days on 29 December 2058 at 20:25.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 729 of Meeus index or 1682 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠321.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.1°.
11 days since point of apogee on 6 December 2058 at 07:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 16 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2059 at 02:24 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 366 203 km (227 548 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 16 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 679 km (252 077 mi).
3 days after descending node on 14 December 2058 at 09:40 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 December 2058 at 05:49 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 16 December 2058 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.991° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.970° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 December 2058 at 22:55 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 29 December 2058 at 20:25 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