Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 2 December 2070 at 16:53.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2070 after 13 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 877 of Meeus index or 1830 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2070. 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 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠163.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:36 about 15 days since last perigee on 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 17 December 2070 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 406 585 km (252 640 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 177 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 124 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries.
At 00:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.543°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.546° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 17 December 2070 at 17:05.
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 13 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini 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