Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 November 2084 at 21:39.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2084 after 12 days on 12 December 2084 at 03:19.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1050 of Meeus index or 2003 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes and it is 28 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 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 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 ∠326.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:16 about 11 days since last apogee on 18 November 2084 at 03:12 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 15 December 2084 at 20:52 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 362 581 km (225 297 mi) away from Earth. It is 73 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 775 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 16 November 2084 at 13:34 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 November 2084 at 06:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 November 2084 at 18:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.903° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.896° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 December 2084 at 00:00 in ♊ Gemini.
26 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 12 days on 12 December 2084 at 03:19 in ♊ Gemini 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