Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 21 October 2019 at 12:39.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2019 after 17 days on 12 November 2019 at 13:34.
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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 244 of Meeus index or 1197 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 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 ∠11.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:41 about 15 days since last apogee on 10 October 2019 at 18:29 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 7 November 2019 at 08:37 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 361 316 km (224 511 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 192 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 040 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 20 October 2019 at 07:28 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 November 2019 at 21:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 20 October 2019 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.947° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.047° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 November 2019 at 00:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 28 October 2019 at 03:38 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