Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 4 October 2083 at 01:07.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2083 after 18 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36.
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 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1920".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1035 of Meeus index or 1988 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 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 ∠299.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325°.
5 days since point of apogee on 1 October 2083 at 17:48 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 October 2083 at 13:59 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 389 469 km (242 005 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 926 km (225 512 mi).
1 day after descending node on 6 October 2083 at 02:37 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 October 2083 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 2 October 2083 at 11:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.664° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.557° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 October 2083 at 18:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 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 3 days on 11 October 2083 at 10:23 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
