Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 3 December 2097 at 19:26.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2097 after 13 days on 19 December 2097 at 00:04.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1948".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1211 of Meeus index or 2164 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2097. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 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 ∠145.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.3°.
14 days since point of perigee on 21 November 2097 at 08:58 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 December 2097 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 674 km (251 453 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 180 km (252 389 mi).
4 days after descending node on 30 November 2097 at 14:46 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 December 2097 at 04:28 in ♉ Taurus.
At 17:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.873°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.860° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 December 2097 at 11:51.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 19 December 2097 at 00:04 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