Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2053 after 27 days on 25 December 2053 at 09:23.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 666 of Meeus index or 1619 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 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 ∠106.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠141.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:02 about 11 days since last apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn 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 13 December 2053 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 362 464 km (225 225 mi) away from Earth. It is 44 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 892 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 19 November 2053 at 23:07 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 December 2053 at 16:41 in ♍ Virgo.
At 23:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.707°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.771° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 December 2053 at 12:05.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 10 December 2053 at 03:40 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