Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 3 November 2013 at 12:50.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2013 after 11 days on 17 November 2013 at 15:16.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 171 of Meeus index or 1124 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes and it is 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 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 ∠315° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:28 about 11 days since last apogee on 25 October 2013 at 14:25 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 22 November 2013 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 365 362 km (227 025 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 854 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 994 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 3 November 2013 at 06:52 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 November 2013 at 05:30 in ♉ Taurus.
At 06:43 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.511°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2013. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.534° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 November 2013 at 17:18.
3 days 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 11 days on 17 November 2013 at 15:16 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