Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 17 October 2094 at 02:45.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2094 after 2 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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:48 about 15 days since last apogee on 5 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 2 November 2094 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 362 124 km (225 013 mi) away from Earth. It is 384 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 232 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 15 October 2094 at 09:00 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 16 October 2094 at 04:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.875° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.975° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 October 2094 at 21:45 in ♋ Cancer.
20 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 2 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