Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 10 October 2085 at 13:09.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2085 after 21 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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
9 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 October 2085 at 00:42 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 401 634 km (249 564 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 393 km (251 900 mi).
2 days after descending node on 8 October 2085 at 17:26 in ♊ Gemini 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 23 October 2085 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 8 October 2085 at 05:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.510° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.402° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2085 at 19:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 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