Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 24 October 2037 at 04:36.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2037 after 24 days on 22 November 2037 at 21:35.
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 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 467 of Meeus index or 1420 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 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 ∠9.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.3°.
8 days since point of apogee on 21 October 2037 at 07:33 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 November 2037 at 22:15 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 381 590 km (237 109 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 791 km (224 185 mi).
13 days after descending node on 16 October 2037 at 03:12 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 October 2037 at 16:21 in ♋ Cancer.
At 20:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.956°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.049° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 November 2037 at 11:53.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 7 November 2037 at 12:03 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