Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 31 December 2066 at 14:41.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2067 after 25 days on 30 January 2067 at 10:29.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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 2067. 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°.
2 days since point of apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer 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 15 January 2067 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 401 145 km (249 260 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 756 km (221 678 mi).
4 days after descending node on 30 December 2066 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2067 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.918° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 January 2067 at 00:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 15 January 2067 at 11:17 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