Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% 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 first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 12 October 2057 at 15:01.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2057 after 23 days on 11 November 2057 at 06:24.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 714 of Meeus index or 1667 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 19 minutes and it is 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 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 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 ∠291.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:29 about 15 days since last perigee on 3 October 2057 at 19:39 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 30 October 2057 at 17:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 515 km (251 354 mi) away from Earth. It is 893 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 194 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 17 October 2057 at 23:41 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2057 at 13:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 5 October 2057 at 10:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.184° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.312° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 October 2057 at 06:50 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 28 October 2057 at 03:19 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