Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 25% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 first ∠0° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 19 October 2076 at 18:51.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 19 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
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 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 45 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 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 ∠219.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:11 about 11 days since last perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 6 November 2076 at 20:15 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 404 879 km (251 580 mi) away from Earth. It is 529 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 830 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.937° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.032° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2076 at 19:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 27 October 2076 at 20:50 in ♎ Libra 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