Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 28% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 7 October 2048 at 17:45.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2048 after 9 days on 21 October 2048 at 18:25.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 603 of Meeus index or 1556 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 minute longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠307.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.6°.
1 day since point of perigee on 11 October 2048 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 October 2048 at 01:59 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 371 km (225 788 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 996 km (251 653 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 07:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 25 October 2048 at 21:25 in ♊ Gemini.
At 03:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.082°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.990° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 October 2048 at 19:04.
At 07:07 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 9 days on 21 October 2048 at 18:25 in ♈ Aries 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