Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 9 November 2007 at 23:03.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2007 after 11 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 3 days 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°.
3 days 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 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 398 574 km (247 662 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 196 km (221 951 mi).
9 days after descending node on 3 November 2007 at 22:09 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2007 at 12:46 in ♓ Pisces.
At 04:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.006°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.958° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 November 2007 at 03:58.
22 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 11 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