Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 27% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 passing about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 1 December 2045 at 09:46.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2045 after 20 days on 24 December 2045 at 00:49.
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 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 567 of Meeus index or 1520 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 51 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 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠58.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.2°.
3 days since point of perigee on 29 November 2045 at 18:10 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 December 2045 at 21:16 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 367 259 km (228 204 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 595 km (251 404 mi).
3 days after descending node on 29 November 2045 at 17:44 in ♌ Leo 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 13 December 2045 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 25 November 2045 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.257° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.229° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 December 2045 at 23:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 8 December 2045 at 11:41 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