Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ∠13° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 15 October 2050 at 20:48.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2050 after 12 days on 30 October 2050 at 03:16.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 628 of Meeus index or 1581 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 4 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 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 ∠212° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠245°.
4 days since point of apogee on 12 October 2050 at 15:51 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 October 2050 at 09:08 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 396 588 km (246 428 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 380 km (224 551 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 10:24 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 30 October 2050 at 11:12 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2050 at 19:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.840° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.790° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 October 2050 at 12:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 10:24 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 12 days on 30 October 2050 at 03:16 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