Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% 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 ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 30 September 2050 at 17:31.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2050 after 26 days on 30 October 2050 at 03:16.
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 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 627 of Meeus index or 1580 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 59 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2050. 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 4 hours and 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 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 ∠186.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠212°.
3 days since point of perigee on 30 September 2050 at 00:42 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 October 2050 at 15:51 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 372 911 km (231 716 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 050 km (252 308 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 00:50 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 17 October 2050 at 10:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 23 September 2050 at 06:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.906° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.840° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 October 2050 at 19:06 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 15 October 2050 at 20:48 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