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 94% 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 31 October 2039 at 22:36.

Hunter Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2039 after 27 days on 30 November 2039 at 16:49.

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 ∠1771"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1935".

Lunation 492 / 1445

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 492 of Meeus index or 1445 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 37 minutes and it is 9 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2039. 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 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠321.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠321.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.7°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 20 October 2039 at 05:11 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 November 2039 at 04:29 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 404 681 km

The Moon is 404 681 km (251 457 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 534 km (251 987 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 19:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 17 November 2039 at 12:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 23 October 2039 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.344° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.428° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 November 2039 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 19:55 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 12 days

In 12 days on 16 November 2039 at 05:46 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