Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 26 October 2051 at 12:39.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2051 after 15 days on 18 November 2051 at 05:06.
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 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 640 of Meeus index or 1593 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 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 ∠163.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:22 about 13 days since last perigee on 19 October 2051 at 22:41 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 17 November 2051 at 10:55 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 406 481 km (252 576 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2051. It is 1 073 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 228 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 03:14 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 16 November 2051 at 01:34 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 23 October 2051 at 15:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.671° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.703° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 November 2051 at 04:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 03:14 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 1 day on 3 November 2051 at 14:59 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