Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 31 October 2033 at 04:46.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 1 day on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 418 of Meeus index or 1371 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2033. 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 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 ∠190.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:57 about 14 days since last apogee on 22 October 2033 at 03:15 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 18 November 2033 at 10:41 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 358 102 km (222 514 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 406 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 254 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2033 at 00:01 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 27 October 2033 at 23:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.327° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.369° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 November 2033 at 16:57 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 6 November 2033 at 20:32 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.
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