Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠10° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 12 October 2087 at 02:14.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2087 after 28 days on 10 November 2087 at 12:05.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1085 of Meeus index or 2038 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 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 ∠129.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:38 about 12 days since last apogee on 1 October 2087 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 28 October 2087 at 19:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 359 661 km (223 483 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 847 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 695 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 21:45 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 27 October 2087 at 13:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 3 October 2087 at 03:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.134° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.085° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 October 2087 at 04:13 in ♊ Gemini.
13 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 26 October 2087 at 11:29 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