Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 17 November 2066 at 13:06.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2066 after 12 days on 1 December 2066 at 19:16.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 827 of Meeus index or 1780 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 13 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠328.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:44 about 11 days since last apogee on 7 November 2066 at 14:36 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 December 2066 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 362 077 km (224 984 mi) away from Earth. It is 431 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 279 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 21:21 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 3 December 2066 at 11:04 in ♊ Gemini.
At 02:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.944°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.924° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 2 December 2066 at 12:20.
At 21:21 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 1 December 2066 at 19:16 in ♊ Gemini 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.
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