Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 30 December 2060 at 09:29.
Wolf Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2061 after 4 days on 6 January 2061 at 02:24.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1951".
Lunation 754 / 1707
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 754 of Meeus index or 1707 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours and 22 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠228.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠228.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.6°.
Moon before perigee
13 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2061 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 389 km(225 799 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 234 km(226 325 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 31 December 2060 at 13:55 in ♈ Aries 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 13 January 2061 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 23 December 2060 at 03:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.980° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.997° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 January 2061 at 06:43 in ♋ Cancer.
In 4 days on 6 January 2061 at 02:24 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.