Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 11 November 2023, Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra. Previous date |
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
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Moon phase and lunation details
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 5 November 2023 at 08:37. Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east. Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will
enter ♏ Scorpio later. Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1938". Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 15 days on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.6 days after Last Quarter
Moonrise and moonset
Moon in ♎ Libra
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Upcoming main Moon phases
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 294 / 1247
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 294 of Meeus index or 1247 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 11 November 2023 Saturday 12:00 UTC
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠232.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.5°. 4
days after point of apogee on 6 November 2023 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
21 November 2023 at 21:03 in ♓ Pisces. Previous apogeeNext
perigee The Moon is 396 418 km (246 323 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 824 km (229 798 mi).True anomaly ∠232.5°
Moon after apogee
Distance to Moon 396 418 km
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 08:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 24 November 2023 at 11:02 in ♈ Aries.
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Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
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Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 2 November 2023 at 05:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.288°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.238° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2023 at 14:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 13 November 2023 at 09:27 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
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