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 69% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 15 September 2008 at 09:13.

Harvest Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2008 after 24 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03.

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 ∠1970"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1911".

Lunation 107 / 1060

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 107 of Meeus index or 1060 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠64.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.7°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 03:17 about 12 days since last apogee on 7 September 2008 at 14:58 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 5 October 2008 at 10:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 368 890 km

This perigee Moon is 368 890 km (229 218 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 382 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 466 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 12 September 2008 at 18:24 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 8 September 2008 at 06:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.550° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.476° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 September 2008 at 18:30 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 29 September 2008 at 08:12 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.

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