Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 1 December 2066 at 19:16.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2066 after 28 days on 31 December 2066 at 14:41.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 827 of Meeus index or 1780 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 13 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠328.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.7°.
14 days since point of perigee on 19 November 2066 at 10:44 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 December 2066 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 572 km (251 389 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 855 km (252 187 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 11:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 17 December 2066 at 07:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 2 December 2066 at 12:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.924° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.934° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 December 2066 at 13:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 17 December 2066 at 00:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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