Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 6 November 2050 at 09:57.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2050 after 15 days on 28 November 2050 at 15:09.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 628 of Meeus index or 1581 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 4 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠212° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠245°.
4 days since point of apogee on 9 November 2050 at 06:44 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2050 at 05:46 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 398 391 km (247 549 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 851 km (227 951 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 17:21 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 26 November 2050 at 21:02 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 2 November 2050 at 04:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.778° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.791° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2050 at 17:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 17:21 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 1 day on 14 November 2050 at 13:41 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