Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 28 October 2082 at 12:13.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2082 after 1 day 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 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1024 of Meeus index or 1977 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 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 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 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 ∠358° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 15:15 about 13 days since last perigee on 21 October 2082 at 21:44 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 19 November 2082 at 09:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 429 km (252 543 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 021 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 280 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 29 October 2082 at 23:42 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 November 2082 at 14:12 in ♌ Leo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 25 October 2082 at 12:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.625° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.510° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 November 2082 at 00:08 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 5 November 2082 at 14:38 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