Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 24 December 2070 at 09:31.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2071 after 20 days on 16 January 2071 at 02:35.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 perigee at 07:40 about 8 days since last apogee on 17 December 2070 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 5 days until point of next apogee on 31 December 2070 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 361 240 km (224 464 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 268 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 116 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 25 December 2070 at 04:13 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 17 December 2070 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.546° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.553° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 December 2070 at 07:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day 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 6 days on 1 January 2071 at 12:15 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