Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 22 December 2096 at 16:36.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2096 after 1 day on 29 December 2096 at 08:23.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1199 of Meeus index or 2152 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 54 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 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 6 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 53 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 ∠194.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠222.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:21 about 15 days since last apogee on 13 December 2096 at 05:28 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 9 January 2097 at 15:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 358 466 km (222 740 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 042 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 890 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 26 December 2096 at 04:11 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2097 at 05:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 16 December 2096 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.929° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.927° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 December 2096 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 29 December 2096 at 08:23 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