Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 26 October 2089 at 16:06.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2089 after 16 days on 18 November 2089 at 03:02.
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 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1110 of Meeus index or 2063 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 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 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠38.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.1°.
3 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2089 at 23:05 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2089 at 07:48 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 375 621 km (233 400 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 280 km (251 208 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 31 October 2089 at 06:06 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 November 2089 at 10:59 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 24 October 2089 at 02:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.262° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.316° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2089 at 03:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 2 November 2089 at 12:55 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