Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 15 October 2033 at 04:47.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 16 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 417 of Meeus index or 1370 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes and it is 22 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 5 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 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 ∠166.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
12 days since point of perigee on 8 October 2033 at 12:11 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 October 2033 at 03:15 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 405 198 km (251 778 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 439 km (252 549 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 19:04 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2033 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.284° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.327° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 October 2033 at 23:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 19:04 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day on 23 October 2033 at 07:28 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.
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
