Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 November 2048 at 04:38.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2048 after 11 days on 20 November 2048 at 11:20.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 3 days 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 7 November 2048 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 November 2048 at 18:24 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 775 km (226 039 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 928 km (252 232 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 12:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 November 2048 at 02:54 in ♊ Gemini.
At 11:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.947°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.917° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 November 2048 at 01:41.
At 12:22 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 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