Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 11 November 2021 at 12:46.
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.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1941".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2021 after 1 day on 19 November 2021 at 08:58.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 270 of Meeus index or 1223 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes. It is 22 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠342.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.3°.
11 days after point of perigee on 5 November 2021 at 22:23 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 November 2021 at 02:14 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 400 590 km (248 915 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 276 km (252 448 mi).
11 days after descending node on 6 November 2021 at 03:38 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 November 2021 at 17:59 in ♉ Taurus.
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
8 days since the previous standstill on 8 November 2021 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.328°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.342° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2021 at 22:43 in ♋ Cancer.
In 1 day on 19 November 2021 at 08:58 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.