Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 19 November 2034 at 04:01.
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2034 after 1 day on 25 November 2034 at 22:32.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1944".
Lunation 431 / 1384
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 431 of Meeus index or 1384 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2034. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠168.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠168.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.5°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 12 November 2034 at 09:37 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 25 November 2034 at 22:06 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 364 519 km(226 502 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 448 km(221 487 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 21 November 2034 at 00:41 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 December 2034 at 11:15 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 14 November 2034 at 17:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.431° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 November 2034 at 19:42 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 25 November 2034 at 22:32 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.