Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% 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 ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 21 November 2065 at 03:51.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2065 after 18 days on 12 December 2065 at 19:52.
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 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 814 of Meeus index or 1767 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 51 minutes and it is 57 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 2 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 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 ∠345.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.7°.
10 days since point of apogee on 14 November 2065 at 06:34 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2065 at 20:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 369 813 km (229 791 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 718 km (221 654 mi).
6 days after descending node on 17 November 2065 at 22:02 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 November 2065 at 17:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 15 November 2065 at 11:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.499° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.483° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 November 2065 at 19:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 27 November 2065 at 21:40 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