Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 27 December 2086 at 21:58.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2087 after 15 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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
5 days since point of apogee on 29 December 2086 at 03:31 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 January 2087 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 119 km (244 273 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 271 km (230 076 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 1 January 2087 at 17:04 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 January 2087 at 20:43 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 2 January 2087 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.607° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.560° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 January 2087 at 23:21 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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