Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 19 October 2066 at 01:42.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2066 after 9 days on 2 November 2066 at 02:13.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 826 of Meeus index or 1779 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes and it is 11 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 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 48 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 ∠304.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328.7°.
1 day since point of perigee on 22 October 2066 at 18:37 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 November 2066 at 14:36 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 772 km (226 037 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 915 km (251 603 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 16:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 6 November 2066 at 05:30 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 October 2066 at 18:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.054° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.974° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 November 2066 at 05:38 in ♊ Gemini.
At 16:14 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 2 November 2066 at 02:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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