Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 20 November 2023 at 10:50.
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 1 day on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1944".
Lunation 295 / 1248
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 295 of Meeus index or 1248 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠269.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠269.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303.6°.
Moon after perigee
4 days since point of perigee on 21 November 2023 at 21:03 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 December 2023 at 18:42 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 378 709 km(235 319 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 348 km(251 250 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 24 November 2023 at 11:02 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 December 2023 at 15:24 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 16 November 2023 at 14:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.238° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.191° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2023 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 27 November 2023 at 09:16 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.