Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 5 October 2017 at 18:40.
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 ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2017 after 25 days on 4 November 2017 at 05:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2017 at 12:25
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2017 at 19:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 27 October 2017 at 22:22
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 November 2017 at 05:23
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 219 / 1172
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 219 of Meeus index or 1172 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 48 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠79°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠79°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 05:51. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 27 September 2017 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 25 October 2017 at 02:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 858 km
This perigee Moon is 366 858 km (227 955 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 350 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 498 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 2 October 2017 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2017 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 28 September 2017 at 10:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.516°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.616° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 October 2017 at 18:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 19 October 2017 at 19:12 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.
