Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 11 October 2030 at 10:47.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2030 after 22 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 380 of Meeus index or 1333 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes and it is 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2030. 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 47 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 ∠310.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 16 October 2030 at 13:21 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 October 2030 at 12:07 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 403 047 km (250 442 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 122 km (224 391 mi).
2 days after descending node on 15 October 2030 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2030 at 03:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 16 October 2030 at 09:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.995° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.941° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2030 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 26 October 2030 at 20:17 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