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Quarter* ♒ Aquarius
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 13 November 2012 at 22:08.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1942".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2012 after 9 days on 28 November 2012 at 14:46.
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.
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 159 of Meeus index or 1112 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠351.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.8°.
5 days after 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 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 November 2012 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 374 846 km (232 919 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 366 km (252 504 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 14 November 2012 at 04:37 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2012 at 17:05 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
3 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2012 at 16:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.914°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.924° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2012 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 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.