Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 23 December 2066 at 16:07.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2066 after 1 day 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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 828 of Meeus index or 1781 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2066. 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 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 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 ∠346.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.4°.
4 days since point of perigee on 26 December 2066 at 09:01 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 806 km (250 913 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 354 km (252 497 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:42 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 13 January 2067 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 29 December 2066 at 18:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.938° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.918° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 January 2067 at 00:58 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 1 day on 31 December 2066 at 14:41 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