Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 30 December 2075 at 13:20.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2076 after 15 days on 21 January 2076 at 04:39.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 939 of Meeus index or 1892 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 11 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2076. 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 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 36 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 ∠337.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354°.
11 days since point of apogee on 24 December 2075 at 19:52 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2076 at 18:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 364 937 km (226 761 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 990 km (221 823 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 17:45 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 19 January 2076 at 00:50 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 23 December 2075 at 08:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.513° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.509° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 January 2076 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 6 January 2076 at 10:14 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