Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 21 November 2069 at 21:31.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2069 after 1 day on 28 November 2069 at 13:46.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 864 of Meeus index or 1817 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2069. 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 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 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 ∠185.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:53 about 14 days since last apogee on 13 November 2069 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 10 December 2069 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 357 487 km (222 132 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 021 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 869 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 26 November 2069 at 10:32 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 9 December 2069 at 16:16 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 16 November 2069 at 09:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.293° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.315° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2069 at 13:04 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 28 November 2069 at 13:46 in ♉ Taurus 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