Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 20% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 23 November 2024 at 01:28.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2024 after 18 days on 15 December 2024 at 09:02.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°).
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.
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 is at apogee at 11:56 about 12 days since last perigee on 14 November 2024 at 11:18 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 12 December 2024 at 13:18 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 405 315 km (251 851 mi) away from Earth. It is 93 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 394 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 25 November 2024 at 21:31 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 December 2024 at 19:36 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 18 November 2024 at 10:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.522° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.452° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 December 2024 at 22:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 1 December 2024 at 06:21 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