Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 10 December 2011 at 14:36.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2012 after 27 days on 9 January 2012 at 07:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 December 2011 at 00:48
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 December 2011 at 18:06
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 January 2012 at 06:15
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2012 at 07:30
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 147 / 1100
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 147 of Meeus index or 1100 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 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 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠21.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠21.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠42.1°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 6 December 2011 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 December 2011 at 02:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 389 825 km
The Moon is 389 825 km (242 226 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 801 km (226 677 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 10 December 2011 at 07:04 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 23 December 2011 at 11:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
16 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 after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 10 December 2011 at 13:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.554°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.554° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2011 at 17:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 24 December 2011 at 18:06 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.
