Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 passing about ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 October 2097 at 01:23.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2097 after 28 days on 19 November 2097 at 13:03.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1209 of Meeus index or 2162 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes and it is 2 hours and 55 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 1 hour and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 24 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 ∠76.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 12 October 2097 at 16:09 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 October 2097 at 15:32 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 371 327 km (230 732 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 167 km (228 147 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 21 October 2097 at 09:50 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 3 November 2097 at 09:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 12 October 2097 at 03:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.965° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.974° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 October 2097 at 18:37 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 12 days on 4 November 2097 at 02:08 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