Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 3 October 2085 at 08:53.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2085 after 24 days on 1 November 2085 at 19:08.
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 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1060 of Meeus index or 2013 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 53 minutes and it is 32 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 3 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠204.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234.1°.
6 days since point of perigee on 1 October 2085 at 22:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 October 2085 at 00:42 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 390 228 km (242 476 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 393 km (251 900 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 23 October 2085 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 05:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.510°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.402° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 October 2085 at 19:20.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 18 October 2085 at 17:00 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