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 87% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 3 December 2074 at 14:03.

Cold Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2075 after 25 days on 2 January 2075 at 09:39.

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 ∠1798"

Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1948".

Lunation 926 / 1879

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 926 of Meeus index or 1879 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes and it is 53 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 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠352.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.7°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 3 December 2074 at 13:40 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2074 at 20:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 398 643 km

The Moon is 398 643 km (247 705 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 126 km (221 908 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 03:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 December 2074 at 02:32 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 6 December 2074 at 03:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.807° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.818° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2074 at 07:43 in ♑ Capricorn.

New draconic month

At 03:38 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 18 December 2074 at 07:20 in ♐ Sagittarius 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