Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 first ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2030 after 28 days on 9 December 2030 at 22:40.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 381 of Meeus index or 1334 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠332.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.8°.
13 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2030 at 12:07 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 November 2030 at 05:00 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 698 km (251 468 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 993 km (252 272 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 18:45 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 November 2030 at 13:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 29 October 2030 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.941° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.904° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 November 2030 at 16:17 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 25 November 2030 at 06:46 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