Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 about ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 18 November 2093 at 19:57.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2093 after 11 days on 2 December 2093 at 22:24.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1161 of Meeus index or 2114 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 50 minutes and it is 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 15 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 ∠314.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:56 about 11 days since last apogee on 9 November 2093 at 23:18 in ♋ Cancer 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 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 365 650 km (227 204 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 142 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 706 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 8 November 2093 at 15:46 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 November 2093 at 07:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 22:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.406°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.462° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 December 2093 at 10:39.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 2 December 2093 at 22:24 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