Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 19 October 2047 at 03:28.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 12 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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 591 of Meeus index or 1544 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 56 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 ∠346.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.2°.
1 day since point of perigee on 19 October 2047 at 21:58 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 November 2047 at 16:20 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 363 744 km (226 020 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 422 km (252 539 mi).
9 days after descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2047 at 02:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.711° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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