Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 17 November 2085 at 08:20.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2085 after 12 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10.
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 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1062 of Meeus index or 2015 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 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 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 29 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 ∠271.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305°.
7 days since point of apogee on 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2085 at 13:37 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 382 169 km (237 469 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 952 km (229 878 mi).
13 days after descending node on 4 November 2085 at 22:57 in ♊ Gemini 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 19 November 2085 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 4 November 2085 at 14:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.345° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.309° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 November 2085 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10 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