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 ∠11° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 October 2043 at 02:27.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2043 after 17 days on 16 November 2043 at 21:52.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 541 of Meeus index or 1494 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 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 4 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 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 ∠123.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154°.
10 days since point of perigee on 19 October 2043 at 23:27 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 November 2043 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 395 811 km (245 946 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 391 km (252 520 mi).
1 day after descending node on 29 October 2043 at 13:05 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 November 2043 at 02:29 in ♓ Pisces.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 22 October 2043 at 21:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.637° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.556° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2043 at 02:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 1 November 2043 at 19:57 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