Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% 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 ∠11° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 20 October 2040 at 04:50.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2040 after 26 days on 18 November 2040 at 19:06.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1809" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 504 of Meeus index or 1457 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 30 minutes and it is 53 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 17 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 ∠261.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠297°.
8 days since point of perigee on 15 October 2040 at 11:20 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 October 2040 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 396 223 km (246 202 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 342 km (251 246 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 22 October 2040 at 06:09 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 November 2040 at 15:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 12 October 2040 at 12:03 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.728° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.789° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 October 2040 at 18:35 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 4 November 2040 at 18:56 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