Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 26 October 2085 at 02:34.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2085 after 3 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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1061 of Meeus index or 2014 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 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 2 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 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 ∠234.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠271.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:49 about 15 days since last apogee on 14 October 2085 at 00:42 in ♍ Virgo 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 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 365 120 km (226 875 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 612 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 236 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 23 October 2085 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2085 at 22:57 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 22 October 2085 at 19:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.402° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.345° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 November 2085 at 14:11 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 1 November 2085 at 19:08 in ♉ Taurus 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