Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 October 2078 at 02:55.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2078 after 28 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 974 of Meeus index or 1927 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 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 ∠146.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 21 October 2078 at 20:52 in ♉ Taurus 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 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 363 301 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 524 km (252 602 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 21 October 2078 at 22:26 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2078 at 12:25 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 13 October 2078 at 00:13 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.596° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.619° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 October 2078 at 18:03 in ♊ Gemini.
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 13 days on 4 November 2078 at 16:56 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