Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 2 December 2093 at 22:24.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2094 after 26 days on 1 January 2094 at 16:51.
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 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1161 of Meeus index or 2114 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 50 minutes and it is 32 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 15 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 ∠314.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.6°.
14 days since point of perigee on 21 November 2093 at 17:56 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 405 075 km (251 702 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 269 km (251 822 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 5 December 2093 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 December 2093 at 15:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 5 December 2093 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.462° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.474° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2093 at 08:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 18 December 2093 at 07:47 in ♐ Sagittarius 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