Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 12 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.
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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 925 of Meeus index or 1878 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 40 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 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 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 ∠335.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2074 at 10:36 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 557 km (225 904 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 179 km (252 388 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 14 October 2074 at 00:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 October 2074 at 15:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 12 October 2074 at 12:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.404° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.522° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2074 at 10:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21 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