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Quarter ♋ Cancer
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 2 October 2001 at 13:49.
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.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1904"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1904" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2001 after 23 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2001 at 04:20
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2001 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2001 at 02:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 November 2001 at 05:41
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.
Lunation 21 / 974
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 21 of Meeus index or 974 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.5°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 29 September 2001 at 05:33 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 October 2001 at 23:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 376 493 km
The Moon is 376 493 km (233 942 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 864 km (224 852 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 22:32 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 21 October 2001 at 13:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 22:32 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 25 September 2001 at 05:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.780°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 October 2001 at 18:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 16 October 2001 at 19:23 in ♎ Libra 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.
