Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 10 December 2076 at 11:35.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2077 after 22 days on 9 January 2077 at 04:37.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°).
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.
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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 16 December 2076 at 20:13 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 December 2076 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 405 137 km (251 740 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 434 km (226 449 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 10 December 2076 at 07:37 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2076 at 18:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 12 December 2076 at 04:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.101° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.094° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2076 at 10:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 26 December 2076 at 00:53 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