Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 5 December 2099 at 04:46.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2099 after 17 days on 27 December 2099 at 12:58.
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 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1235 of Meeus index or 2188 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 hours and 7 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 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠27.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠49.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 8 December 2099 at 17:50 in ♎ Libra 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 20 December 2099 at 13:16 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 370 126 km (229 986 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 339 km (251 245 mi).
4 days after descending node on 5 December 2099 at 21:04 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 December 2099 at 01:02 in ♓ Pisces.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 29 November 2099 at 16:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.380° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.351° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 December 2099 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 11 December 2099 at 23:09 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