Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2084 after 22 days on 12 November 2084 at 10:10.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
12 days since point of perigee on 8 October 2084 at 09:29 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 October 2084 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 230 km (251 798 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 207 km (251 163 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 10:21 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 November 2084 at 01:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 18 October 2084 at 09:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.073° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.986° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2084 at 10:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 29 October 2084 at 09:47 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