Waning Crescent Moon in Libra on 18 November 2014 Tuesday (2024)

Moon in ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 14 November 2014 at 15:16.

Cold Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2014 after 18 days on 6 December 2014 at 12:27.

Neap tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1792"

Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1941".

Lunation 183 / 1136

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 183 of Meeus index or 1136 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes and it is 1 hour and 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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

True anomaly ∠252.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠252.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠289.3°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 15 November 2014 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo 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 27 November 2014 at 23:11 in ♒ Aquarius.

Last apogee | Next perigee

Distance to Moon 400 033 km

The Moon is 400 033 km (248 569 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 825 km (229 799 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 5 November 2014 at 03:13 in ♈ Aries 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 19 November 2014 at 08:18 in ♎ Libra.

Last node | Next node

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 9 November 2014 at 23:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.575° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 November 2014 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Last standstill | Next standstill

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

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Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 22 November 2014 at 12:32 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.

Last syzygy | Next syzygy