Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 9 October 2041 at 18:03.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2041 after 26 days on 8 November 2041 at 04:43.
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 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 516 of Meeus index or 1469 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes and it is 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2041. 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 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 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 ∠200.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.1°.
3 days since point of perigee on 8 October 2041 at 12:08 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2041 at 16:08 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 377 177 km (234 367 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 544 km (251 993 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 11 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 October 2041 at 09:31 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 2 October 2041 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.789° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.830° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2041 at 10:36 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 25 October 2041 at 01:30 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