Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 22 November 2037 at 21:35.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2037 after 27 days on 22 December 2037 at 13:38.
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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 468 of Meeus index or 1421 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes and it is 2 hours and 28 minutes 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 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠26.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48°.
7 days since point of apogee on 17 November 2037 at 21:05 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 December 2037 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 383 901 km (238 545 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 169 km (227 527 mi).
13 days after descending node on 12 November 2037 at 05:59 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 November 2037 at 17:38 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the last southern standstill on 11 November 2037 at 11:53 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.049° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.140° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 November 2037 at 02:10 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 6 December 2037 at 23:38 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
