Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 25 November 2049 at 05:35.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2049 after 10 days on 9 December 2049 at 07:28.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 617 of Meeus index or 1570 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 41 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 ∠310.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:08 about 11 days since last apogee on 16 November 2049 at 15:07 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 14 December 2049 at 11:17 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 366 491 km (227 727 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 983 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 865 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 25 November 2049 at 00:12 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 December 2049 at 22:33 in ♉ Taurus.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 26 November 2049 at 06:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.274° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.283° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 December 2049 at 08:52 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 9 December 2049 at 07:28 in ♊ Gemini 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