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Moon ♏ Scorpio
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 3% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 14 November 2060 at 23:48.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1943".
Cold Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 16 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 November 2060 at 04:16
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2060 at 23:11
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2060 at 14:48
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 December 2060 at 17:15
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 752 / 1705
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 752 of Meeus index or 1705 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 752 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 50 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2060. It is 26 minutes longer than next lunation 753 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 57 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠174.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠174.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠199.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 01:49, this is 13 days after last perigee on 7 November 2060 at 22:11 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 6 December 2060 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 406 318 km
This apogee Moon is 406 318 km (252 474 mi) away from Earth. It is 910 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 391 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 20 November 2060 at 10:05 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 December 2060 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 11 November 2060 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.098°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.046° in the next southern standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 23 November 2060 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.