Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 16 December 2083 at 01:13.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2083 after 1 day on 24 December 2083 at 03:52.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1038 of Meeus index or 1991 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 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 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠359.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠15°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:30 about 13 days since last perigee on 9 December 2083 at 07:26 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 6 January 2084 at 20:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 372 km (252 508 mi) away from Earth. It is 964 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 337 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 12 December 2083 at 02:09 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 December 2083 at 09:52 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 9 December 2083 at 13:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.302° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.297° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 December 2083 at 04:56 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 24 December 2083 at 03:52 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