Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% 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 passing about ∠5° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 2 December 2072 at 19:22.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2072 after 20 days on 25 December 2072 at 07:15.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 901 of Meeus index or 1854 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 38 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 minutes 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 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 ∠41.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠69°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:52 about 15 days since last apogee on 19 November 2072 at 08:15 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 17 December 2072 at 05:19 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 369 748 km (229 751 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2072. It is 7 240 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 608 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 2 December 2072 at 07:21 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 15 December 2072 at 14:09 in ♒ Aquarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 28 November 2072 at 02:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.023° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.074° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 December 2072 at 01:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
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 5 days on 9 December 2072 at 16:59 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