Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 first ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 24 November 2083 at 08:23.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2083 after 24 days on 24 December 2083 at 03:52.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 19 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°.
3 days since point of apogee on 25 November 2083 at 20:43 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 December 2083 at 07:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 398 681 km (247 729 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 689 km (221 636 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 06:19 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 12 December 2083 at 02:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 25 November 2083 at 23:27 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.301° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.302° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 December 2083 at 13:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 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