Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 9 November 2007 at 23:03.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2007 after 13 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30.
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 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 97 of Meeus index or 1050 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes and it is 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2007. 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 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes 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 ∠183.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.6°.
1 day since point of apogee on 9 November 2007 at 12:31 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 403 786 km (250 901 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 196 km (221 951 mi).
7 days after descending node on 3 November 2007 at 22:09 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2007 at 12:46 in ♓ Pisces.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 29 October 2007 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.117° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.006° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 November 2007 at 04:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
20 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 13 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30 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