Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 13 November 2046 at 17:04.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2046 after 26 days on 13 December 2046 at 09:55.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 579 of Meeus index or 1532 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes 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 ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.1°.
6 days since point of apogee on 9 November 2046 at 19:38 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2046 at 18:09 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 388 755 km (241 561 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 050 km (225 589 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 4 November 2046 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 November 2046 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer.
At 01:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.076°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.048° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 28 November 2046 at 22:56.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 27 November 2046 at 21:50 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