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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 30 October 2088 at 03:10.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2088 after 28 days on 28 November 2088 at 14:18.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1098 of Meeus index or 2051 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 28 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 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 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 ∠96.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.6°.
10 days since point of apogee on 20 October 2088 at 20:06 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 November 2088 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 367 840 km (228 565 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 107 km (226 246 mi).
2 days after descending node on 29 October 2088 at 10:27 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 November 2088 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 19 October 2088 at 12:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.845° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.864° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2088 at 06:05 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 13 November 2088 at 06:32 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