Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 4 January 2093 at 13:22.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2093 after 2 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 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1150 of Meeus index or 2103 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 31 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠6.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:43 about 12 days since last perigee on 28 December 2092 at 07:30 in ♑ Capricorn 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 25 January 2093 at 18:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 189 km (252 394 mi) away from Earth. It is 781 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 520 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 30 December 2092 at 11:22 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2093 at 16:59 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 28 December 2092 at 21:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.841° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.841° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 January 2093 at 17:53 in ♋ Cancer.
24 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 2 days on 12 January 2093 at 17:43 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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