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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 67% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 67% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 30 September 2012 at 03:19.
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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1774"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1920".
Harvest Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2012 after 23 days on 29 October 2012 at 19:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 October 2012 at 07:33
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 October 2012 at 12:02
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 22 October 2012 at 03:32
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 October 2012 at 19:50
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 157 / 1110
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 157 of Meeus index or 1110 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2012. It is 13 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠312.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠312.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.3°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 5 October 2012 at 00:43 in ♊ Gemini. 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 17 October 2012 at 01:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 956 km
The Moon is 403 956 km (251 007 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 673 km (224 112 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 4 October 2012 at 05:15 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 October 2012 at 18:27 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 01:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.024°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.964° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 October 2012 at 06:49.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 15 October 2012 at 12:02 in ♎ Libra 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.
