Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 13 December 2086 at 14:20.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2086 after 1 day on 20 December 2086 at 08:19.
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 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1075 of Meeus index or 2028 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 3 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 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 ∠238° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠275.9°.
2 days since point of perigee on 17 December 2086 at 09:07 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 December 2086 at 03:31 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 371 570 km (230 883 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 509 km (251 350 mi).
1 day after descending node on 18 December 2086 at 14:55 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 January 2087 at 17:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 14:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.627°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.607° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 2 January 2087 at 20:57.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 December 2086 at 08:19 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.
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