Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% 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 ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 1 December 2064 at 15:00.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2064 after 16 days on 23 December 2064 at 18:14.
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 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 802 of Meeus index or 1755 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 44 minutes and it is 2 hours and 2 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 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 ∠14.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 December 2064 at 06:12 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 December 2064 at 01:06 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 367 823 km (228 555 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 936 km (251 616 mi).
8 days after descending node on 29 November 2064 at 05:50 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2064 at 21:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 November 2064 at 15:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.797° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.787° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 December 2064 at 15:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 8 December 2064 at 06:28 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