Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 3 December 2076 at 09:15.
Cold Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2076 after 4 days on 10 December 2076 at 11:35.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1948".
Lunation 951 / 1904
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 951 of Meeus index or 1904 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠290.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠290.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days since point of perigee on 1 December 2076 at 16:17 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 December 2076 at 20:13 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 367 494 km(228 350 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 712 km(251 476 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 27 November 2076 at 08:39 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2076 at 07:37 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 29 November 2076 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.107° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.101° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 December 2076 at 04:08 in ♋ Cancer.
In 4 days on 10 December 2076 at 11:35 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.