Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 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 ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 8 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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 7 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°.
4 days 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 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2074 at 10:36 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 369 679 km (229 708 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 179 km (252 388 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 15:21 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 10 November 2074 at 01:28 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 October 2074 at 10:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.522° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.659° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 November 2074 at 20:11 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 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