Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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
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Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 9 November 2024 at 05:56.
Beaver Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2024 after 4 days on 15 November 2024 at 21:29.
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 ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1939".
Lunation 307 / 1260
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 307 of Meeus index or 1260 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠204.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠204.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.3°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 29 October 2024 at 22:50 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 November 2024 at 11:18 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 365 093 km(226 858 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 110 km(223 762 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 29 October 2024 at 17:44 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 November 2024 at 15:59 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 November 2024 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.578° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.522° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2024 at 10:22 in ♋ Cancer.
In 4 days on 15 November 2024 at 21:29 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.