Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 23 November 2043 at 13:46.
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2043 after 15 days on 16 December 2043 at 08:02.
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 ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1946".
Lunation 542 / 1495
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 542 of Meeus index or 1495 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes and it is 31 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠154°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠154° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.1°.
Moon before apogee
13 days since point of perigee on 17 November 2043 at 09:11 in ♊ Gemini 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 1 December 2043 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 862 km(251 570 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 706 km(252 715 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 25 November 2043 at 15:09 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2043 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 19 November 2043 at 05:40 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.494° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.421° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 December 2043 at 07:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 1 December 2043 at 14:37 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.