Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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 ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 24 November 2083 at 08:23.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2083 after 28 days on 24 December 2083 at 03:52.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1037 of Meeus index or 1990 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 35 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 ∠343.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:43 about 15 days since last perigee on 10 November 2083 at 19:25 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 9 December 2083 at 07:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 373 km (252 508 mi) away from Earth. It is 965 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 336 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 14 November 2083 at 20:37 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 November 2083 at 06:19 in ♌ Leo.
At 23:27 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.301°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.302° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 December 2083 at 13:02.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 9 December 2083 at 06:25 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