Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 69% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 15 October 2092 at 10:25.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2092 after 23 days on 14 November 2092 at 03:04.
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 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1147 of Meeus index or 2100 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 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 ∠312.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334°.
1 day since point of apogee on 20 October 2092 at 09:17 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 November 2092 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 543 km (251 371 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 684 km (224 119 mi).
11 days after descending node on 9 October 2092 at 23:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2092 at 08:18 in ♌ Leo.
At 20:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.498°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.608° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 3 November 2092 at 23:31.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 30 October 2092 at 19:28 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