Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 17 October 2035 at 02:35.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2035 after 28 days on 15 November 2035 at 13:49.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 442 of Meeus index or 1395 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 47 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 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠75° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110.7°.
9 days since point of apogee on 8 October 2035 at 19:01 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 October 2035 at 19:38 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 371 956 km (231 123 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 444 km (228 319 mi).
5 days after descending node on 13 October 2035 at 10:19 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 October 2035 at 07:11 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 8 October 2035 at 14:46 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.877° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.978° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2035 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 31 October 2035 at 02:59 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