Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 21 October 2048 at 18:25.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2048 after 25 days on 20 November 2048 at 11:20.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
14 days 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 October 2048 at 01:59 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 689 km (251 462 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 996 km (251 653 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 21:25 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 8 November 2048 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 19:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.990°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.947° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 November 2048 at 11:15.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 6 November 2048 at 04:38 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