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 passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 October 2055 at 18:22.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2055 after 16 days on 4 November 2055 at 12:12.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:43 about 14 days since last apogee on 5 October 2055 at 17:59 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 1 November 2055 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 357 259 km (221 990 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 249 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 097 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 October 2055 at 11:35 in ♒ Aquarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.758° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.867° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2055 at 12:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 October 2055 at 10:49 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