Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 October 2026 at 04:12.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2026 after 26 days on 24 November 2026 at 14:53.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 331 of Meeus index or 1284 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 35 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 ∠94.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 28 October 2026 at 18:01 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 November 2026 at 17:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 849 km (226 085 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 619 km (252 040 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 21 October 2026 at 08:53 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 November 2026 at 03:02 in ♌ Leo.
At 17:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.795°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.697° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 12 November 2026 at 09:40.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 9 November 2026 at 07:02 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