Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 passing about ∠6° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 16 October 2090 at 10:36.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2090 after 16 days on 7 November 2090 at 09:05.
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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1122 of Meeus index or 2075 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 33 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 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 31 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 ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:03 about 15 days since last apogee on 6 October 2090 at 16:44 in ♓ Pisces 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 3 November 2090 at 02:54 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 359 372 km (223 303 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 136 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 984 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 20 October 2090 at 10:45 in ♍ Virgo 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 2 November 2090 at 17:56 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 14 October 2090 at 20:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.312° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.382° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 October 2090 at 11:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 October 2090 at 02:09 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