Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 October 2045 at 18:31.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2045 after 16 days on 25 October 2045 at 21:31.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 565 of Meeus index or 1518 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 3 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 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 34 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 ∠16.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠34.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 8 October 2045 at 08:16 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2045 at 04:05 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 367 453 km (228 325 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 638 km (251 430 mi).
2 days after descending node on 6 October 2045 at 15:11 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 October 2045 at 23:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 2 October 2045 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.609° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.520° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 October 2045 at 06:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 10 October 2045 at 10:37 in ♎ Libra 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