Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% 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 ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 13 December 2071 at 22:57.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2072 after 20 days on 5 January 2072 at 18:13.
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 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 889 of Meeus index or 1842 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 4 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours 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 ∠102.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠138.1°.
7 days since point of perigee on 9 December 2071 at 10:47 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 December 2071 at 10:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 378 060 km (234 916 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 839 km (252 177 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 14 December 2071 at 01:42 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 December 2071 at 08:59 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 8 December 2071 at 10:00 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.456° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.491° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 December 2071 at 16:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 21 December 2071 at 11:47 in ♐ Sagittarius 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