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 passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 December 2065 at 08:27.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2066 after 14 days on 11 January 2066 at 15:07.
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 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" 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 816 of Meeus index or 1769 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 47 minutes and it is 49 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 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 12 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 ∠16.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.6°.
17 days since point of apogee on 11 December 2065 at 06:28 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 January 2066 at 15:46 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 368 730 km (229 118 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 716 km (252 100 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 03:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 11 January 2066 at 07:55 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 26 December 2065 at 06:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.485° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.491° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 January 2066 at 23:20 in ♊ Gemini.
At 03:31 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 14 days on 11 January 2066 at 15:07 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