Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 5 November 2023 at 08:37.
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 15 days on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1938".
Lunation 294 / 1247
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 294 of Meeus index or 1247 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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°).
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 details for
True anomaly ∠232.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠232.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.5°.
Moon after apogee
4 days since 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.
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).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 08:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 November 2023 at 11:02 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern 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.
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.