Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 4 November 2076 at 01:58.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 4 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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 950 of Meeus index or 1903 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 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 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 9 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 ∠254.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠290.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:15 about 15 days since last apogee on 22 October 2076 at 03:11 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 18 November 2076 at 23:07 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 368 114 km (228 735 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 606 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 242 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 November 2076 at 22:52 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 1 November 2076 at 19:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.032° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.085° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 November 2076 at 19:07 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07 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
