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 99% 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 5 December 2082 at 08:57.

Cold Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2083 after 28 days on 4 January 2083 at 02:32.

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 ∠1803"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1948".

Lunation 1025 / 1978

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1025 of Meeus index or 1978 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 1 hour and 48 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 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠13.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠13.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 1 December 2082 at 21:23 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2082 at 18:03 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 397 509 km

The Moon is 397 509 km (247 001 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 976 km (224 921 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 26 November 2082 at 01:01 in ♒ Aquarius 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 10 December 2082 at 14:39 in ♌ Leo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 05:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.402°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2082. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.412° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 December 2082 at 08:21.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 19 December 2082 at 15:11 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