Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 72% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 24 October 2001 at 02:58.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2001 after 5 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41.
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 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 22 of Meeus index or 975 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 50 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 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 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 ∠30.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:12 about 11 days since last perigee on 14 October 2001 at 23:02 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 11 November 2001 at 17:37 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 404 937 km (251 616 mi) away from Earth. It is 471 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 772 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 21 October 2001 at 13:22 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 November 2001 at 23:58 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 22 October 2001 at 13:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.041° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.154° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 November 2001 at 00:19 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41 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