Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 59% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 18 October 2062 at 08:18.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2062 after 23 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48.
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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 776 of Meeus index or 1729 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 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 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 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 ∠54.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:04 about 13 days since last apogee on 11 October 2062 at 03:14 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 7 November 2062 at 23:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 369 991 km (229 902 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2062. It is 7 483 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 365 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 15 October 2062 at 19:12 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 October 2062 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 October 2062 at 22:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.544° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.465° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 November 2062 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 1 November 2062 at 07:32 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
