Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠12° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 21 October 2008 at 11:55.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2008 after 21 days on 13 November 2008 at 06:17.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 108 of Meeus index or 1061 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 39 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 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 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 ∠98.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
5 days since point of perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus 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 2 November 2008 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 370 378 km (230 142 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 18:00 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 6 November 2008 at 03:34 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 19 October 2008 at 00:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.270° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.155° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2008 at 20:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 28 October 2008 at 23:14 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