Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2083 after 25 days on 24 November 2083 at 08:23.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1036 of Meeus index or 1989 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes and it is 18 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2083. 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 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 ∠325° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 11:06 about 15 days since last perigee on 13 October 2083 at 13:59 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 10 November 2083 at 19:25 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 405 765 km (252 131 mi) away from Earth. It is 357 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 944 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 18 October 2083 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 November 2083 at 04:57 in ♌ Leo.
At 17:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.436°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.371° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 12 November 2083 at 02:36.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 9 November 2083 at 20:15 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