Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 10 November 2011 at 20:16.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2011 after 28 days on 10 December 2011 at 14:36.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 146 of Meeus index or 1099 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 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 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 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 ∠5.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
3 days since point of apogee on 8 November 2011 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2011 at 23:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 399 671 km (248 344 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 692 km (223 502 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 29 October 2011 at 14:59 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 November 2011 at 00:35 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 29 October 2011 at 20:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.609° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.558° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 November 2011 at 07:23 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 25 November 2011 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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