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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 13 December 2092 at 21:59.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2093 after 28 days on 12 January 2093 at 17:43.
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 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1149 of Meeus index or 2102 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes and it is 38 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠350.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 14 December 2092 at 04:05 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 December 2092 at 07:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 656 km (251 442 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 969 km (221 810 mi).
12 days after descending node on 3 December 2092 at 03:12 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 December 2092 at 11:56 in ♌ Leo.
At 10:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.845°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2092. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.841° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 28 December 2092 at 21:41.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 28 December 2092 at 16:10 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