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 68% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 20 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.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.

Hunter Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2054 after 23 days on 15 November 2054 at 08:49.

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 ∠1930"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1929".

Lunation 677 / 1630

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 677 of Meeus index or 1630 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes and it is 2 hours and 20 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠23.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠23.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠44°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 October 2054 at 01:15 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 371 458 km

The Moon is 371 458 km (230 813 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 225 km (226 940 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 October 2054 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 10:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.417°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.520° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 4 November 2054 at 07:53.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 30 October 2054 at 20:01 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