Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2044 after 24 days on 5 November 2044 at 12:27.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 553 of Meeus index or 1506 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 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 ∠57.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠90.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:35 about 13 days since last apogee on 29 September 2044 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 27 October 2044 at 11:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 369 711 km (229 728 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 203 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 645 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 4 October 2044 at 10:56 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 October 2044 at 10:18 in ♍ Virgo.
At 04:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.347°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.259° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 October 2044 at 15:51.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 20 October 2044 at 23:36 in ♎ Libra 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
