Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 28 November 2012 at 14:46.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1774"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1946".
Beaver Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2012 after 27 days on 28 December 2012 at 10:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 6 December 2012 at 15:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 December 2012 at 08:42
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 20 December 2012 at 05:19
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2012 at 10:21
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 159 / 1112
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 159 of Meeus index or 1112 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
Length of current 159 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter than next lunation 160 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 59 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠351.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠6.8°. 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
1 day after point of apogee on 28 November 2012 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 12 December 2012 at 23:14 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 404 096 km
Moon is 404 096 km (251 094 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 074 km (221 875 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 27 November 2012 at 17:05 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2012 at 15:57 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 29 November 2012 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.924°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.926° in the next southern standstill on 13 December 2012 at 03:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 13 December 2012 at 08:42 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.