Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 28 October 2023 at 20:24.
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 24 days on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.
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 ∠1812"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1934".
Lunation 294 / 1247
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 294 of Meeus index or 1247 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠232.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠232.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.5°.
Moon before apogee
7 days since point of perigee on 26 October 2023 at 02:53 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2023 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 395 528 km(245 770 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 569 km(251 388 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 28 October 2023 at 03:14 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 November 2023 at 08:49 in ♎ Libra.
At 05:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.288°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.238° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 16 November 2023 at 14:45.
In 10 days on 13 November 2023 at 09:27 in ♏ Scorpio 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.