Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 23 December 2079 at 06:31.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2080 after 7 days on 7 January 2080 at 01:45.
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 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 989 of Meeus index or 1942 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2079. 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 6 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 23 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 ∠174.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.5°.
6 days since point of apogee on 23 December 2079 at 21:45 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2080 at 19:49 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 386 785 km (240 337 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 505 km (221 522 mi).
13 days after descending node on 17 December 2079 at 08:14 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 December 2079 at 23:44 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 23 December 2079 at 10:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.189° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.224° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 January 2080 at 04:42 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 7 January 2080 at 01:45 in ♋ Cancer 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.
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