Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 first ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 22 October 2086 at 09:56.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2086 after 27 days on 20 November 2086 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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1073 of Meeus index or 2026 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 57 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2086. 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 5 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 50 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 ∠181.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.3°.
2 days since point of perigee on 21 October 2086 at 22:00 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 November 2086 at 17:53 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 368 806 km (229 165 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 226 km (252 417 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 18:13 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 8 November 2086 at 03:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 13 October 2086 at 01:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.722° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.669° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 October 2086 at 17:01 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 6 November 2086 at 11:53 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