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 ∠20° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 24 November 2070 at 20:20.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2070 after 19 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05.
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 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1831" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 876 of Meeus index or 1829 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 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 ∠134.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.2°.
9 days since point of perigee on 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 December 2070 at 13:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 391 365 km (243 183 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 585 km (252 640 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 03:19 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 20 November 2070 at 04:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.488° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.543° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 December 2070 at 00:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 03:19 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 4 days on 2 December 2070 at 16:53 in ♐ Sagittarius 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