Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 27 October 2053 at 10:38.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2053 after 25 days on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 665 of Meeus index or 1618 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 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 ∠71.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:02 about 12 days since last apogee on 19 October 2053 at 07:14 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 368 005 km (228 668 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 497 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 351 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 23 October 2053 at 18:33 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 November 2053 at 16:13 in ♍ Virgo.
At 15:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.541°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.637° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 14 November 2053 at 03:32.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 10 November 2053 at 10:55 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