Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 21 October 2078 at 02:55.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2078 after 25 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 19 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°.
3 days 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 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 368 347 km (228 880 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 524 km (252 602 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 21 October 2078 at 22:26 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2078 at 12:25 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 18:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.619°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2078. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.622° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 9 November 2078 at 06:39.
3 days 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 10 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