Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 23 November 2022 at 22:57.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2022 after 11 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 283 of Meeus index or 1236 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes and it is 44 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 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 ∠325.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:30 about 11 days since last apogee on 14 November 2022 at 06:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 362 826 km (225 450 mi) away from Earth. It is 318 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 530 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 22 November 2022 at 16:23 in ♏ Scorpio 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 5 December 2022 at 12:39 in ♉ Taurus.
At 08:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.471°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.432° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 9 December 2022 at 21:22.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08 in ♊ Gemini 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
