Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 3 November 2053 at 05:37.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2053 after 20 days on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.
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 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 665 of Meeus index or 1618 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 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 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 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 ∠71.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.8°.
5 days since point of perigee on 31 October 2053 at 10:02 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 369 897 km (229 843 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 957 km (251 629 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 16:13 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 19 November 2053 at 23:07 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 31 October 2053 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.541° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.637° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2053 at 03:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 16:13 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 4 days on 10 November 2053 at 10:55 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
