Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 25 October 2003 at 12:50.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2003 after 13 days on 9 November 2003 at 01:14.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 47 of Meeus index or 1000 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes and it is 35 minutes shorter 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 34 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 ∠344° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:34 about 12 days since last apogee on 14 October 2003 at 02:27 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 10 November 2003 at 12:05 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 358 549 km (222 792 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 959 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 807 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 18:43 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 November 2003 at 09:48 in ♉ Taurus.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 17 October 2003 at 03:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.054° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.091° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2003 at 23:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 9 November 2003 at 01:14 in ♉ Taurus 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
