Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 25 October 2064 at 07:06.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2064 after 27 days on 24 November 2064 at 00:58.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 801 of Meeus index or 1754 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 33 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 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 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 ∠359.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14.9°.
3 days since point of apogee on 24 October 2064 at 01:15 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 November 2064 at 22:41 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 400 640 km (248 946 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 227 km (222 592 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 18 October 2064 at 15:14 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 November 2064 at 05:22 in ♌ Leo.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 14 October 2064 at 19:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.067° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.938° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2064 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 8 November 2064 at 19:45 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