Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 30 December 2081 at 04:28.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2082 after 11 days on 14 January 2082 at 18:11.
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 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1014 of Meeus index or 1967 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 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 ∠84.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠122.6°.
12 days since point of perigee on 22 December 2081 at 10:49 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 January 2082 at 22:19 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 402 916 km (250 360 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 473 km (251 328 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 19:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 17 January 2082 at 15:31 in ♌ Leo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2081 at 05:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.138° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.182° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 January 2082 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini.
At 19:51 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 days on 14 January 2082 at 18:11 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