Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 12 November 2059 at 20:45.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1941".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 2 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09.
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.
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 740 of Meeus index or 1693 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠225.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠262.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:17. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 1 November 2059 at 04:40 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 28 November 2059 at 22:30 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 363 733 km (226 013 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 225 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 623 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 5 November 2059 at 17:51 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2059 at 20:56 in ♉ Taurus.
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
7 days since the previous standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.235°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.219° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2059 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer.
In 2 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09 in ♉ Taurus 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.