Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 5 November 2006 at 12:58.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1936".
Beaver Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2006 after 28 days on 5 December 2006 at 00:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 November 2006 at 17:45
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 November 2006 at 22:18
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 28 November 2006 at 06:29
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 5 December 2006 at 00:25
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.
Lunation 84 / 1037
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 84 of Meeus index or 1037 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 4 hours and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠207.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠207.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238.7°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 3 November 2006 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 November 2006 at 23:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 371 573 km
The Moon is 371 573 km (230 885 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 193 km (251 775 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 2 November 2006 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 15 November 2006 at 13:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 27 October 2006 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.595°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 November 2006 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 20 November 2006 at 22:18 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.
