Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2068 after 25 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40.
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 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 850 of Meeus index or 1803 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes and it is 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2068. 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 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠183.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.1°.
4 days since point of perigee on 10 October 2068 at 11:20 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 October 2068 at 04:48 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 374 972 km (232 997 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 142 km (252 365 mi).
1 day after descending node on 13 October 2068 at 09:31 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2068 at 18:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 2 October 2068 at 15:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.769° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.707° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2068 at 05:07 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 26 October 2068 at 04:17 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
