Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2076 after 25 days on 10 December 2076 at 11:35.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 950 of Meeus index or 1903 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 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 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 9 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 ∠254.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠290.9°.
7 days since point of perigee on 6 November 2076 at 20:15 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 November 2076 at 23:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 395 937 km (246 024 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 391 km (251 277 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 12 November 2076 at 22:52 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2076 at 08:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 19:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.085°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.107° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 29 November 2076 at 01:35.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 26 November 2076 at 11:28 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