Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 27 October 2015 at 12:05.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1931".
Hunter Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2015 after 28 days on 25 November 2015 at 22:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 November 2015 at 12:24
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 November 2015 at 17:47
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 19 November 2015 at 06:27
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 November 2015 at 22:44
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 195 / 1148
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 195 of Meeus index or 1148 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
Length of current 195 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2015. It is 59 minutes longer than next lunation 196 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠192.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠220.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 26 October 2015 at 12:59 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 November 2015 at 21:48 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 111 km
Moon is 368 111 km (228 734 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 724 km (252 105 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 25 October 2015 at 07:37 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 7 November 2015 at 15:53 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 18 October 2015 at 18:31 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.190°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.241° in the next northern standstill on 31 October 2015 at 09:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 14 days
After 14 days on 11 November 2015 at 17:47 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.