Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 2 December 2009 at 07:30.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2009 after 28 days on 31 December 2009 at 19:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 December 2009 at 00:13
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 December 2009 at 12:02
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 December 2009 at 17:36
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 31 December 2009 at 19:13
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 122 / 1075
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 122 of Meeus index or 1075 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
Length of current 122 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 123 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠99.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠99.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠135.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 22 November 2009 at 20:07 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 December 2009 at 14:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 367 711 km
Moon is 367 711 km (228 485 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 363 479 km (225 855 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 21 November 2009 at 11:34 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 December 2009 at 03:18 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 2 December 2009 at 23:37 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.772°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.769° in the next southern standstill on 16 December 2009 at 02:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 16 December 2009 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.