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

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 83% 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 5 October 2074 at 02:55.

Hunter Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 25 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.

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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1922".

Lunation 924 / 1877

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 924 of Meeus index or 1877 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2074. 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠314.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠314.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.8°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 20:38 about 15 days since last perigee on 23 September 2074 at 22:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 405 331 km

This apogee Moon is 405 331 km (251 861 mi) away from Earth. It is 77 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 378 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 29 September 2074 at 14:52 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2074 at 00:03 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 28 September 2074 at 04:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.263° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.404° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 October 2074 at 12:44 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11 in ♎ Libra 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