Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% 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 ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 11 December 2093 at 03:15.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2094 after 16 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 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
8 days since point of apogee on 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 December 2093 at 18:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 374 693 km (232 823 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 323 km (223 894 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 5 December 2093 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 December 2093 at 15:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.474° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2093 at 08:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days 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 1 day 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