Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 3 January 2100 at 13:03.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2100 after 21 days on 26 January 2100 at 02:49.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1236 of Meeus index or 2189 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours 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 ∠49.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠81.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 3 January 2100 at 08:57 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2100 at 10:48 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 363 873 km (226 100 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 420 km (251 295 mi).
2 days after descending node on 1 January 2100 at 21:13 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 January 2100 at 03:56 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 26 December 2099 at 23:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.345° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.379° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 January 2100 at 21:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 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 6 days on 10 January 2100 at 12:55 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