Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 18 November 2017 at 11:42.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2017 after 11 days on 3 December 2017 at 15:47.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 221 of Meeus index or 1174 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes and it is 59 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 6 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 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 ∠147° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.3°.
1 day since point of apogee on 21 November 2017 at 18:52 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 December 2017 at 08:42 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 964 km (251 633 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 496 km (222 138 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 10 November 2017 at 22:40 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 November 2017 at 08:22 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 02:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.959°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.015° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 December 2017 at 11:43.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 3 December 2017 at 15:47 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