Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 13 December 2069 at 17:38.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2069 after 11 days on 28 December 2069 at 00:50.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 865 of Meeus index or 1818 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 5 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠211.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.8°.
5 days since point of apogee on 10 December 2069 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 December 2069 at 15:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 392 063 km (243 617 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 15 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 337 km (230 117 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 9 December 2069 at 16:16 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 December 2069 at 17:14 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 13 December 2069 at 16:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.339° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.319° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 December 2069 at 01:12 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 28 December 2069 at 00:50 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