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 passing about ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 16 December 2087 at 20:11.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2088 after 15 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37.
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 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" 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 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 22 December 2087 at 02:07 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 998 km (251 654 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 758 km (224 165 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 21 December 2087 at 00:25 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 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus.
At 22:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.078°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.031° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 6 January 2088 at 13:10.
2 days 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 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