Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 23 October 2010 at 01:36.
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 passing about ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1869"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1930".
Hunter Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2010 after 26 days on 21 November 2010 at 17:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 October 2010 at 12:46
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 November 2010 at 04:52
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 13 November 2010 at 16:39
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 November 2010 at 17:27
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 133 / 1086
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 133 of Meeus index or 1086 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 133 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 134 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠20.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠39.7°. 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 after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 18 October 2010 at 18:18 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 November 2010 at 17:22 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 383 576 km
Moon is 383 576 km (238 343 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 189 km (226 297 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 13 October 2010 at 15:36 in ♐ Sagittarius, 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 28 October 2010 at 03:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 22:36 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.337°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.281° in its southern standstill point on 8 November 2010 at 16:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 6 November 2010 at 04:52 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.