Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 7 November 2016 at 19:51.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2016 after 5 days on 14 November 2016 at 13:52.
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 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 208 of Meeus index or 1161 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes and it is 5 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2016. 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 5 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.
8 days since point of apogee on 31 October 2016 at 19:29 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 November 2016 at 11:23 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 376 252 km (233 792 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 512 km (221 526 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 15:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 November 2016 at 02:48 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 4 November 2016 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.737° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.814° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 November 2016 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 14 November 2016 at 13:52 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