Moon Observation 10/23/10

Tonight, October 23, 2010, I looked up at the sky at about 9:30 pm from my driveway in Sarasota.  The moon was in the east direction of the sky, and about 99% of it was illuminated, meaning that it is in the waning gibbous phase of its cycle.  I could see Jupiter to the southwest of the moon, and I noticed that it is further away from the moon that it was the previous night.