Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 13 November 2012 at 22:08.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2012 after 13 days on 28 November 2012 at 14:46.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 159 of Meeus index or 1112 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes and it is 28 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 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 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 ∠351.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 14 November 2012 at 10:21 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 November 2012 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 506 km (225 872 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 366 km (252 504 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 14 November 2012 at 04:37 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2012 at 17:05 in ♉ Taurus.
At 16:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.914°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2012. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.924° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 November 2012 at 14:33.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 28 November 2012 at 14:46 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