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 88% 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 ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 1 December 2066 at 19:16.

Cold Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2066 after 26 days on 31 December 2066 at 14:41.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1947".

Lunation 827 / 1780

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 827 of Meeus index or 1780 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠328.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠328.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.7°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 07:41 about 15 days since last perigee on 19 November 2066 at 10:44 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 20 days until point of next perigee on 26 December 2066 at 09:01 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 405 855 km

This apogee Moon is 405 855 km (252 187 mi) away from Earth. It is 447 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 854 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 3 December 2066 at 11:04 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 December 2066 at 07:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 2 December 2066 at 12:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.924° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.934° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 December 2066 at 13:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 17 December 2066 at 00:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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