Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 14 November 2027 at 03:26.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2027 after 26 days on 13 December 2027 at 16:09.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 344 of Meeus index or 1297 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes and it is 3 hours shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 59 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 ∠61.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96°.
11 days since point of apogee on 6 November 2027 at 11:37 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2027 at 00:10 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 367 682 km (228 467 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 356 km (229 507 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 5 November 2027 at 16:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 November 2027 at 08:34 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 16 November 2027 at 07:40 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.619° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.574° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 November 2027 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 28 November 2027 at 03:24 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