Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 23 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58.
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 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 590 of Meeus index or 1543 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes and it is 34 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2047. 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 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 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 ∠329.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 7 October 2047 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2047 at 21:58 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 399 842 km (248 450 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 956 km (222 424 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 27 September 2047 at 01:32 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 9 October 2047 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.802° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.711° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 19 October 2047 at 03:28 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