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 74% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 31 October 2039 at 22:36.

Hunter Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2039 after 24 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 ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1936".

Lunation 492 / 1445

The Moon is 19 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 after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 5 November 2039 at 04:29 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 November 2039 at 09:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 404 127 km

The Moon is 404 127 km (251 113 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 171 km (223 179 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 3 November 2039 at 19:55 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 November 2039 at 12:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon at northern standstill

At 03:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.428°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.460° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 19 November 2039 at 08:56.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 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