Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 14 December 2060 at 17:15.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2061 after 15 days on 6 January 2061 at 02:24.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 753 of Meeus index or 1706 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 5 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 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 ∠199.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.7°.
2 days since point of apogee on 18 December 2060 at 13:24 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2061 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 357 km (250 013 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 234 km (226 325 mi).
3 days after descending node on 17 December 2060 at 13:43 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 December 2060 at 13:55 in ♈ Aries.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 8 December 2060 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.011° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.980° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2060 at 03:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 22 December 2060 at 22:39 in ♐ Sagittarius 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