Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 5 November 2044 at 12:27.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2044 after 26 days on 4 December 2044 at 23:34.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 554 of Meeus index or 1507 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 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 2 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 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 ∠90.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠126.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:14 about 11 days since last apogee on 27 October 2044 at 11:18 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 24 November 2044 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 364 997 km (226 799 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 489 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 359 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 31 October 2044 at 17:08 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 November 2044 at 12:05 in ♍ Virgo.
At 11:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.171°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.089° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 21 November 2044 at 22:50.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 19 November 2044 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio 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