Day: October 12, 2023

October 12, 2023 Current Moon Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Current Moon Phase

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

From MoonGiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the October 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on October 12 has an illumination of 5%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On October 12 the Moon is 27.45 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 5%
Moon Age: 27.45 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 403,575.78 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,282,173.42 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link  

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

October 12, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Libra 21
Moon:29 Virgo 19
Mercury:14 Libra 03
Venus:03 Virgo 25
Mars:00 Scorpio 32
Jupiter:13 Taurus 14 Rx
Saturn:00 Pisces 56 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 17 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 53 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 07 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):01 Virgo 03

Chiron:17 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:11 Scorpio 28
Pallas:13 Libra 21
Juno:28 Leo 03
Vesta:06 Cancer 00

Eris:24 Aries 45 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:5
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

October 12, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Libra 16
Moon:28 Virgo 19
Mercury:13 Libra 55
Venus:03 Virgo 21
Mars:00 Scorpio 29
Jupiter:13 Taurus 15 Rx
Saturn:00 Pisces 56 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 17 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 53 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 07 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):01 Virgo 03

Chiron:17 Aries 36 Rx
Ceres:11 Scorpio 26
Pallas:13 Libra 19
Juno:28 Leo 01
Vesta:06 Cancer 00

Eris:24 Aries 45 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:5
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

12 October 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:18 Libra 59
Moon:24 Virgo 48
Mercury:13 Libra 24
Venus:03 Virgo 05
Mars:00 Scorpio 17
Jupiter:13 Taurus 17 Rx
Saturn:00 Pisces 57 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 18 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 39 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 53 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 08 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):01 Virgo 01

Chiron:17 Aries 37 Rx
Ceres:11 Scorpio 19
Pallas:13 Libra 11
Juno:27 Leo 53
Vesta:05 Cancer 57

Eris:24 Aries 46 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:5
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5