Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 24 October 2098 at 10:49.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2098 after 11 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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1222 of Meeus index or 2175 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 31 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 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 45 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 ∠48.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠78.8°.
7 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2098 at 03:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 394 548 km (245 161 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 370 km (251 264 mi).
5 days after descending node on 23 October 2098 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2098 at 11:42 in ♈ Aries.
12 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.513° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2098 at 00:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 9 November 2098 at 00:15 in ♉ Taurus 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