Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 65% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 30 November 2098 at 21:56.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2098 after 6 days on 8 December 2098 at 13:45.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1223 of Meeus index or 2176 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 10 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 2 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 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 ∠78.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.9°.
2 days since point of apogee on 30 November 2098 at 00:33 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 December 2098 at 21:02 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 402 348 km (250 007 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 722 km (227 870 mi).
12 days after descending node on 19 November 2098 at 13:21 in ♎ Libra 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 3 December 2098 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 25 November 2098 at 09:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.393° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.352° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 December 2098 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 8 December 2098 at 13:45 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