Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 4 November 2002 at 20:34.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2002 after 11 days on 20 November 2002 at 01:34.
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 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 35 of Meeus index or 988 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 48 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 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 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 ∠14° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32.1°.
4 days since point of perigee on 4 November 2002 at 00:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 November 2002 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 378 002 km (234 880 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 795 km (252 149 mi).
1 day after descending node on 6 November 2002 at 15:22 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 November 2002 at 23:26 in ♊ Gemini.
At 20:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.781°. Over the upcoming 15 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.812° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 23 November 2002 at 12:14.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 20 November 2002 at 01:34 in ♉ Taurus 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