Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 5 November 2069 at 20:40.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2069 after 16 days on 28 November 2069 at 13:46.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 863 of Meeus index or 1816 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 34 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 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 ∠161.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.4°.
13 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2069 at 09:15 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 November 2069 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 405 119 km (251 729 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 514 km (252 596 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 11:24 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 26 November 2069 at 10:32 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 2 November 2069 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.271° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.293° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2069 at 09:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 11:24 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 1 day on 13 November 2069 at 22:38 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