Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 2 October 2096 at 01:24.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2096 after 23 days on 31 October 2096 at 11:16.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1196 of Meeus index or 2149 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠110.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠143.3°.
3 days since point of perigee on 4 October 2096 at 00:44 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 October 2096 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 365 602 km (227 175 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 935 km (252 236 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 4 October 2096 at 22:17 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 October 2096 at 14:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 25 September 2096 at 05:26 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.795° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.877° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 October 2096 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 16 October 2096 at 06:28 in ♎ Libra 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