Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 November 2042 at 15:51.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2042 after 16 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06.
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 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 529 of Meeus index or 1482 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. 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 5 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 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 ∠177.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 12:15 about 13 days since last perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 25 November 2042 at 22:40 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 406 245 km (252 429 mi) away from Earth. It is 837 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 464 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 01:54 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 November 2042 at 01:03 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 1 November 2042 at 17:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.455° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 12 November 2042 at 20:28 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