Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 November 2099 at 21:22.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2099 after 28 days on 27 December 2099 at 12:58.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1235 of Meeus index or 2188 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 hours and 7 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 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 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 ∠27.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠49.8°.
6 days since point of apogee on 22 November 2099 at 17:25 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 8 December 2099 at 17:50 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 387 866 km (241 009 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 610 km (227 801 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 21 November 2099 at 23:18 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 December 2099 at 21:04 in ♍ Virgo.
At 16:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.380°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.351° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 12 December 2099 at 13:59.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 11 December 2099 at 23:09 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