Moon in Stockholm Today — Waning Gibbous

Moon in Stockholm — Did You Know?

• ·Stockholm's Nobel Prize ceremonies — among the world's most prestigious scientific awards — are held each December 10th, a date fixed by Alfred Nobel's 1896 death anniversary rather than the lunar calendar, but the Nobel banquet's seating of 1,300 guests in the Stockholm City Hall (Stadshuset) is illuminated primarily by candlelight that Swedish protocol insists be timed to begin at dusk, tracked since the 17th century by the Swedish church's lunisolar almanac.
• ·Stockholm is built on 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, giving it an extraordinary waterscape within the city; from Södermalm's cliff-edge Monteliusvägen promenade overlooking Gamla Stan (Old Town) and the Riddarfjärden bay, the full moon in winter rises low over the Baltic to the southeast and reflects across the ice-edged bay, with the spire of Riddarholmskyrkan cutting a dark silhouette against the moonlit water.
• ·At latitude 59.3° N, Stockholm sees the winter full moon make a very shallow arc through the southern sky, reaching a maximum altitude of approximately 54°; in December the full moon barely clears the horizon ridgeline of Djurgården island, remaining a permanently amber-tinted, low-hanging disc for the entirety of its winter transit above the city.