Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 20 December 2086 at 08:19.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2087 after 28 days on 18 January 2087 at 22:11.
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 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
4 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 December 2086 at 03:31 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 380 573 km (236 477 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 509 km (251 350 mi).
2 days after descending node on 18 December 2086 at 14:55 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 January 2087 at 17:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 19 December 2086 at 14:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.627° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 January 2087 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 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 14 days on 4 January 2087 at 22:11 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