Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Cancer

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

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.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 November 2019 at 13:34.

Beaver Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2019 after 25 days on 12 December 2019 at 05:12.

Neap tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1940".

Lunation 245 / 1198

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 245 of Meeus index or 1198 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 27 minutes and it is 2 hours and 41 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠28.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.7°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 7 November 2019 at 08:37 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2019 at 07:54 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 376 634 km

The Moon is 376 634 km (234 030 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 721 km (227 870 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 08:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 29 November 2019 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at northern standstill

At 13:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.151°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.200° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 29 November 2019 at 10:36.

New draconic month

At 08:48 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 26 November 2019 at 15:06 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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