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 89% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14.

Hunter Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2005 after 26 days on 16 November 2005 at 00:58.

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 ∠1843"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1927".

Lunation 71 / 1024

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 71 of Meeus index or 1024 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠236.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠236.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠273.1°.

Moon before apogee

5 days since point of perigee on 14 October 2005 at 13:50 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 October 2005 at 09:34 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 389 010 km

The Moon is 389 010 km (241 720 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 493 km (251 340 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 16 October 2005 at 18:25 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2005 at 00:32 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 9 October 2005 at 16:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.604° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.583° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2005 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

3 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 12 days

In 12 days on 2 November 2005 at 01:25 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