Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 19 November 2021 at 08:58.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2021 after 26 days on 19 December 2021 at 04:36.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 270 of Meeus index or 1223 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter 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 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.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠342.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.3°.
1 day since point of apogee on 21 November 2021 at 02:14 in ♊ Gemini 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 2021 at 10:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 135 km (251 118 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 794 km (221 702 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 19 November 2021 at 17:59 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 December 2021 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 22:43 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.342°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2021. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.331° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 6 December 2021 at 02:25.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 4 December 2021 at 07:43 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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