Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 2 November 2070 at 22:42.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2070 after 8 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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 876 of Meeus index or 1829 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 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 ∠134.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.2°.
2 days since point of apogee on 7 November 2070 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 401 840 km (249 692 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 729 km (222 904 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 31 October 2070 at 23:32 in ♎ Libra 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 15 November 2070 at 11:41 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 6 November 2070 at 16:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.443° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 November 2070 at 04:59 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 18 November 2070 at 05:40 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