Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠6° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 14 November 2060 at 23:48.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 19 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 752 of Meeus index or 1705 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 50 minutes and it is 26 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2060. 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 6 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 57 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 ∠174.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.1°.
10 days since point of perigee on 7 November 2060 at 22:11 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 401 651 km (249 574 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 318 km (252 474 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 7 November 2060 at 00:56 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 November 2060 at 10:05 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 11 November 2060 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.098° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.046° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 23 November 2060 at 04:16 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