Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40.
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2068 after 27 days on 8 December 2068 at 23:42.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1939".
Lunation 851 / 1804
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 851 of Meeus index or 1804 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠209.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠209.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.5°.
Moon after perigee
3 days since point of perigee on 7 November 2068 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 November 2068 at 19:10 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 376 614 km(234 017 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 230 km(251 798 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 9 November 2068 at 19:59 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 November 2068 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 15:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.651°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2068. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.658° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 November 2068 at 02:57.
In 13 days on 24 November 2068 at 21:42 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.