Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 29 December 2096 at 08:23.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2097 after 28 days on 27 January 2097 at 19:47.
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 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
2 days since point of perigee on 28 December 2096 at 08:21 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 January 2097 at 15:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 368 990 km (229 280 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 774 km (252 136 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 26 December 2096 at 04:11 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2097 at 05:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 29 December 2096 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.927° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.927° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2097 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 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 14 days on 13 January 2097 at 15:00 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