Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 71% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2056 after 23 days on 22 November 2056 at 06:12.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 702 of Meeus index or 1655 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes and it is 50 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 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 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 ∠337.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
3 days since point of apogee on 25 October 2056 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 November 2056 at 20:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 398 360 km (247 529 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 013 km (221 838 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 17:10 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 11 November 2056 at 09:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 11:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.641°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.728° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 November 2056 at 06:14.
At 17:10 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 9 days on 7 November 2056 at 12:20 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