Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 11 October 2083 at 10:23.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2083 after 10 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1036 of Meeus index or 1989 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes and it is 18 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2083. 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 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 ∠325° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.6°.
1 day since point of perigee on 13 October 2083 at 13:59 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 October 2083 at 11:06 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 376 km (225 791 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 765 km (252 131 mi).
9 days after descending node on 6 October 2083 at 02:37 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 October 2083 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 18:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.557°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.436° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 October 2083 at 17:47.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36 in ♈ Aries 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
