Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 18 December 2093 at 07:47.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2094 after 13 days on 1 January 2094 at 16:51.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1162 of Meeus index or 2115 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2093. 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 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 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 ∠335.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:42 about 11 days since last apogee on 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 4 January 2094 at 09:27 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 360 323 km (223 894 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 185 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 033 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 15:25 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 2 January 2094 at 02:47 in ♋ Cancer.
At 08:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.474°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2093. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.474° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 1 January 2094 at 17:59.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 1 January 2094 at 16:51 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