Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 26 October 2049 at 16:15.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2049 after 10 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 616 of Meeus index or 1569 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 21 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 minutes 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 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠278.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.2°.
10 days since point of apogee on 19 October 2049 at 18:32 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 November 2049 at 18:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 368 936 km (229 246 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 118 km (229 981 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 28 October 2049 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 November 2049 at 14:33 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 October 2049 at 23:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.292° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.270° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 November 2049 at 00:36 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38 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