Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 4 November 2091 at 10:27.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2091 after 20 days on 26 November 2091 at 03:43.
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 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1135 of Meeus index or 2088 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes and it is 59 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 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 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 ∠349.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.7°.
8 days since point of apogee on 27 October 2091 at 22:34 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 November 2091 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 377 310 km (234 450 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 866 km (221 746 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 17:50 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 November 2091 at 04:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 1 November 2091 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.224° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2091 at 09:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 17:50 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 5 days on 11 November 2091 at 03:42 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