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 98% 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 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 18 November 2089 at 03:02.

Beaver Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2089 after 28 days on 17 December 2089 at 15:37.

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 ∠1913"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1942".

Lunation 1111 / 2064

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1111 of Meeus index or 2064 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 28 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 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠64.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 10 November 2089 at 07:48 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 November 2089 at 17:03 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 374 600 km

The Moon is 374 600 km (232 766 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 024 km (229 301 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 14 November 2089 at 10:59 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 November 2089 at 10:18 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the last southern standstill on 6 November 2089 at 03:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.316° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.377° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 November 2089 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 2 December 2089 at 03:11 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