Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 October 2070 at 18:59.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2070 after 26 days on 18 November 2070 at 05:40.
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 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 875 of Meeus index or 1828 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes and it is 2 hours and 30 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 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 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 ∠100.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠134.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:04 about 11 days since last apogee on 10 October 2070 at 07:45 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 7 November 2070 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 363 541 km (225 894 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 033 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 815 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 19 October 2070 at 01:49 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 October 2070 at 23:32 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 10 October 2070 at 08:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.377° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.400° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2070 at 19:48 in ♊ Gemini.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 2 November 2070 at 22:42 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