Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 November 2072 at 11:16.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2072 after 17 days on 25 November 2072 at 16:59.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 900 of Meeus index or 1853 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 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 ∠21.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠41.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 7 November 2072 at 14:09 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 November 2072 at 08:15 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 367 160 km (228 143 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 457 km (251 318 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 5 November 2072 at 06:42 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 November 2072 at 12:11 in ♓ Pisces.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 31 October 2072 at 19:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.845° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.935° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 November 2072 at 14:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 10 November 2072 at 04:21 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