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

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 95% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 17 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

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.

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.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 15 November 2035 at 13:49.

Beaver Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2035 after 27 days on 15 December 2035 at 00:33.

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1941".

Lunation 443 / 1396

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 443 of Meeus index or 1396 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 39 minutes and it is 2 hours and 14 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠110.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠110.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144.1°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 11:30 about 11 days since last apogee on 5 November 2035 at 15:01 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 3 December 2035 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 361 943 km

This perigee Moon is 361 943 km (224 901 mi) away from Earth. It is 565 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 413 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 9 November 2035 at 14:55 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 November 2035 at 07:40 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 4 November 2035 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.089° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.182° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2035 at 12:52 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 29 November 2035 at 19:38 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