Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 18 November 2093 at 19:57.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2093 after 10 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 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 4 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 21 November 2093 at 17:56 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 363 861 km (226 093 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 269 km (251 822 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 07:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 5 December 2093 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 21 November 2093 at 22:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.406° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.462° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 December 2093 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 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