Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 11 November 2057 at 06:24.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2057 after 26 days on 11 December 2057 at 00:46.
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 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 715 of Meeus index or 1668 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 3 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 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 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 ∠318.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339°.
14 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2057 at 17:10 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 15 November 2057 at 17:25 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 153 km (251 750 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 449 km (251 934 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 04:02 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 27 November 2057 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 1 November 2057 at 16:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.406° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.485° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 November 2057 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer.
At 04:02 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 12 days on 26 November 2057 at 14:22 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