Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 33% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 9 October 2094 at 12:44.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2094 after 8 days on 23 October 2094 at 17:47.
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 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1172 of Meeus index or 2125 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 58 minutes and it is 50 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 3 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠216.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 5 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 October 2094 at 18:48 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 375 404 km (233 265 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 124 km (225 013 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 09:00 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 27 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 1 October 2094 at 13:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.728° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.875° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 October 2094 at 04:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 23 October 2094 at 17:47 in ♈ Aries 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