Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 October 2082 at 23:32.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2082 after 16 days on 5 November 2082 at 14:38.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1023 of Meeus index or 1976 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠342.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358°.
11 days since point of apogee on 8 October 2082 at 14:12 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 October 2082 at 21:44 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 364 722 km (226 628 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 831 km (221 725 mi).
3 days after descending node on 17 October 2082 at 11:28 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2082 at 23:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 12 October 2082 at 18:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.713° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2082 at 12:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 21 October 2082 at 18:50 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