Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% 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 passing about ∠12° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 23 October 2092 at 14:07.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2092 after 20 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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
4 days 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 November 2092 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 396 393 km (246 307 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 684 km (224 119 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 08:18 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 6 November 2092 at 00:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 21 October 2092 at 20:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.498° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.608° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 November 2092 at 23:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 08:18 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 6 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