Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 10 November 2011 at 20:16.
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 ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1809"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1809" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2011 after 27 days on 10 December 2011 at 14:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2011 at 15:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 November 2011 at 06:10
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 December 2011 at 09:52
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 December 2011 at 14:36
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 146 / 1099
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 146 of Meeus index or 1099 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 8 November 2011 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2011 at 23:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 396 188 km
The Moon is 396 188 km (246 180 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 692 km (223 502 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 00:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 26 November 2011 at 01:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 07:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.558°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.552° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 November 2011 at 06:47.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 25 November 2011 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
