Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 November 2033 at 20:09.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2033 after 16 days on 6 December 2033 at 07:22.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 18 November 2033 at 10:41 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 December 2033 at 08:06 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 405 283 km (251 831 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 272 km (225 105 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 18 November 2033 at 00:01 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 December 2033 at 23:03 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 9 November 2033 at 16:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.369° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.438° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 November 2033 at 06:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 22 November 2033 at 01:39 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