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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 18 November 2089 at 03:02.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2089 after 26 days on 17 December 2089 at 15:37.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1111 of Meeus index or 2064 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 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 ∠64.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99°.
11 days since point of apogee on 10 November 2089 at 07:48 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 November 2089 at 17:03 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 367 210 km (228 174 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 024 km (229 301 mi).
7 days after descending node on 14 November 2089 at 10:59 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 November 2089 at 10:18 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 20 November 2089 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.377° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.433° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 December 2089 at 12:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 December 2089 at 03:11 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