Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 80% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 16 November 2005 at 00:58.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1942".
Beaver Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2005 after 25 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 November 2005 at 22:11
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 December 2005 at 15:01
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 December 2005 at 09:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 December 2005 at 16:16
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 72 / 1025
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 72 of Meeus index or 1025 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
Length of current 72 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 73 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠273.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠273.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠306.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 10 November 2005 at 00:15 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 November 2005 at 06:17 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 401 922 km
Moon is 401 922 km (249 743 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 371 km (251 264 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 13 November 2005 at 02:02 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2005 at 07:13 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 18 November 2005 at 23:39 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.471°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.415° in the next southern standstill on 3 December 2005 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 1 December 2005 at 15:01 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.