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

Waning Gibbous in Cancer

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 86% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 18 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 13 November 2046 at 17:04.

Beaver Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2046 after 25 days on 13 December 2046 at 09:55.

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 ∠1866"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1941".

Lunation 579 / 1532

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 579 of Meeus index or 1532 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠16.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.1°.

Moon after apogee

7 days since point of apogee on 9 November 2046 at 19:38 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2046 at 18:09 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 384 058 km

The Moon is 384 058 km (238 643 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 050 km (225 589 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 4 November 2046 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 November 2046 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 16 November 2046 at 01:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.076° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.048° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 November 2046 at 22:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 27 November 2046 at 21:50 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