Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠15° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 12 October 2036 at 18:09.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2036 after 20 days on 4 November 2036 at 00:44.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 454 of Meeus index or 1407 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 58 minutes and it is 2 hours and 26 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 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 23 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 ∠25.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.7°.
13 days since point of apogee on 30 September 2036 at 13:16 in ♒ Aquarius 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 16 October 2036 at 12:04 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 363 362 km (225 783 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 813 km (227 306 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 12:21 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 October 2036 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 12 October 2036 at 00:39 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.162° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.273° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2036 at 00:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 12:21 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 4 days on 19 October 2036 at 11:50 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