Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 17 October 2098 at 16:57.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2098 after 16 days on 9 November 2098 at 00:15.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
2 days since point of perigee on 21 October 2098 at 07:37 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2098 at 03:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 371 430 km (230 796 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 370 km (251 264 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 06:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 6 November 2098 at 11:42 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 16 October 2098 at 02:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.546° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.513° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2098 at 00:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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