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

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 24 November 2083 at 08:23.

Beaver Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2083 after 28 days on 24 December 2083 at 03:52.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1944".

Lunation 1037 / 1990

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1037 of Meeus index or 1990 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠343.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠343.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 20:43 about 15 days since last perigee on 10 November 2083 at 19:25 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 9 December 2083 at 07:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 406 373 km

This apogee Moon is 406 373 km (252 508 mi) away from Earth. It is 965 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 336 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 14 November 2083 at 20:37 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 November 2083 at 06:19 in ♌ Leo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 23:27 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.301°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.302° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 December 2083 at 13:02.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 9 December 2083 at 06:25 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