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.
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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
Length of current 146 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than next lunation 147 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 39 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠21.6°. 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 after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 8 November 2011 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 November 2011 at 23:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 396 188 km
Moon is 396 188 km (246 180 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 692 km (223 502 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 00:35 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 26 November 2011 at 01:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 07:23 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠22.558°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-22.552° in its southern standstill point on 26 November 2011 at 06:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 25 November 2011 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.