Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 31 October 2077 at 10:36.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2077 after 26 days on 29 November 2077 at 21:43.
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 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 962 of Meeus index or 1915 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 53 minutes and it is 47 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2077. 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 5 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 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 ∠194.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠222.6°.
4 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2077 at 10:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 November 2077 at 17:19 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 376 876 km (234 180 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 768 km (252 133 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 1 November 2077 at 18:57 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 November 2077 at 02:10 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 23 October 2077 at 01:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.450° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.487° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 November 2077 at 15:36 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 15 November 2077 at 17:00 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