Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 8 December 2098 at 13:45.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2099 after 26 days on 7 January 2099 at 01:50.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1223 of Meeus index or 2176 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 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 ∠78.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:02 about 11 days since last apogee on 30 November 2098 at 00:33 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 27 December 2098 at 21:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 366 722 km (227 870 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 214 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 634 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 3 December 2098 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 December 2098 at 15:17 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 9 December 2098 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.352° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.323° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 December 2098 at 16:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 22 December 2098 at 15:24 in ♐ Sagittarius 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
