Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 October 2098 at 09:20.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2098 after 26 days on 9 November 2098 at 00:15.
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 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1221 of Meeus index or 2174 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 30 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 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 57 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 ∠26.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.5°.
8 days since point of apogee on 5 October 2098 at 09:05 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 October 2098 at 07:37 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 381 559 km (237 090 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 149 km (227 514 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 10 October 2098 at 04:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 October 2098 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 1 October 2098 at 16:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.555° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.546° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 October 2098 at 02:36 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 24 October 2098 at 10:49 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