Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 28% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 days 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 ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 19 October 2017 at 19:12.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2017 after 9 days on 4 November 2017 at 05:23.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 220 of Meeus index or 1173 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes and it is 2 hours and 18 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 3 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠114.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠147°.
Moon is at apogee at 02:25 about 15 days since last perigee on 9 October 2017 at 05:51 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 6 November 2017 at 00:09 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 151 km (251 749 mi) away from Earth. It is 257 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 558 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 14 October 2017 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 October 2017 at 06:41 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 18:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.741°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.848° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 8 November 2017 at 01:28.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 4 November 2017 at 05:23 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
