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

Waning Gibbous in Cancer

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 63% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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.

Moon phases on nearby dates

Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.

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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 28 October 2080 at 16:13.

Hunter Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2080 after 23 days on 27 November 2080 at 05:14.

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 ∠1969"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1935".

Lunation 999 / 1952

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 999 of Meeus index or 1952 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.54 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 53 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠51.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠51.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.5°.

Moon before perigee

12 days since point of apogee on 21 October 2080 at 15:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 November 2080 at 09:49 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 364 011 km

The Moon is 364 011 km (226 186 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 160 km (230 007 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 26 October 2080 at 03:27 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 November 2080 at 04:19 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 1 November 2080 at 15:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.580° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.509° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2080 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 11 November 2080 at 15:37 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