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

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 November 2021 at 08:58.

Beaver Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2021 after 27 days on 19 December 2021 at 04:36.

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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1943".

Lunation 270 / 1223

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 270 of Meeus index or 1223 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠342.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠342.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 02:14 about 15 days since last perigee on 5 November 2021 at 22:23 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 4 December 2021 at 10:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 406 276 km

This apogee Moon is 406 276 km (252 448 mi) away from Earth. It is 868 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 433 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 19 November 2021 at 17:59 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 December 2021 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 8 November 2021 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.328° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.342° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2021 at 22:43 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 4 December 2021 at 07:43 in ♐ Sagittarius 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