Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 about ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 6 October 2084 at 22:42.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2084 after 5 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1048 of Meeus index or 2001 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes and it is 38 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠268.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:29 about 14 days since last apogee on 23 September 2084 at 10:54 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 21 October 2084 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 369 624 km (229 674 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2084. It is 7 116 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 732 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 7 October 2084 at 00:35 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 October 2084 at 10:21 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 5 October 2084 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.185° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.073° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 October 2084 at 09:41 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 5 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12 in ♈ Aries 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