Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 20 November 2048 at 11:20.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2048 after 27 days on 20 December 2048 at 06:39.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
14 days 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 November 2048 at 18:24 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 157 km (251 753 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 928 km (252 232 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 02:54 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 5 December 2048 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 01:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.917°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2048. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.922° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 December 2048 at 21:34.
13 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 13 days on 5 December 2048 at 15:30 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