Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 21 December 2094 at 19:56.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2095 after 25 days on 20 January 2095 at 12:48.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1174 of Meeus index or 2127 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 48 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 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠287.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.1°.
13 days since point of perigee on 13 December 2094 at 11:23 in ♓ Pisces 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 28 December 2094 at 08:42 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 404 109 km (251 102 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 647 km (251 436 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 21 December 2094 at 16:09 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 January 2095 at 02:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 22 December 2094 at 16:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.122° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.121° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 January 2095 at 01:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 6 January 2095 at 09:33 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