Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 6 November 2048 at 04:38.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2048 after 12 days on 20 November 2048 at 11:20.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 604 of Meeus index or 1557 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2048. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 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 ∠330.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:21 about 11 days since last apogee on 27 October 2048 at 01:59 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 23 November 2048 at 18:24 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 361 590 km (224 682 mi) away from Earth. It is 918 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 766 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 25 October 2048 at 21:25 in ♊ Gemini 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 8 November 2048 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 25 October 2048 at 19:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.990° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.947° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 November 2048 at 11:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 20 November 2048 at 11:20 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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