Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 16 December 2087 at 20:11.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2088 after 16 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37.
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 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1087 of Meeus index or 2040 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2087. 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 6 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 28 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 ∠183° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠208.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 02:07 about 12 days since last perigee on 9 December 2087 at 08:50 in ♊ Gemini 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 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 406 133 km (252 359 mi) away from Earth. It is 725 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 576 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 21 December 2087 at 00:25 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 10 December 2087 at 01:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.072° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.078° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2087 at 22:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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 2 days on 25 December 2087 at 01:42 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