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

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 98% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 16 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 October 2062 at 08:18.

Hunter Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2062 after 28 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1892"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1927".

Lunation 776 / 1729

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 776 of Meeus index or 1729 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠54.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠54.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.4°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 11 October 2062 at 03:14 in ♑ Capricorn 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 24 October 2062 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 378 760 km

The Moon is 378 760 km (235 351 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 991 km (229 902 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 15 October 2062 at 19:12 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 October 2062 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 8 October 2062 at 21:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.620° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.544° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2062 at 22:10 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 1 November 2062 at 07:32 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