Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 20% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 20 October 2093 at 07:33.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2093 after 9 days on 3 November 2093 at 06:46.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1160 of Meeus index or 2113 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 24 minutes and it is 34 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 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 49 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 ∠284.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠314.2°.
11 days since point of apogee on 13 October 2093 at 02:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 October 2093 at 10:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 366 774 km (227 903 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 030 km (229 926 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 12 October 2093 at 13:29 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 October 2093 at 05:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 11 October 2093 at 17:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.080° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.213° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2093 at 15:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 3 November 2093 at 06:46 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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