Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 11 November 2015 at 17:47.
Beaver Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2015 after 9 days on 25 November 2015 at 22:44.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1888"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1940".
Lunation 196 / 1149
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 196 of Meeus index or 1149 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠220.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠220.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 7 November 2015 at 21:48 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2015 at 20:06 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 379 702 km(235 936 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 818 km(225 445 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 7 November 2015 at 15:53 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 November 2015 at 13:56 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 November 2015 at 00:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.331° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.384° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 November 2015 at 20:13 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 25 November 2015 at 22:44 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.