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Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 62% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1923".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2017 after 23 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 21 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
Length of current 219 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than next lunation 220 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠79°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠79°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠114.6°. 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 perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 9 October 2017 at 05:51 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 October 2017 at 02:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 485 km
Moon is 363 485 km (225 859 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 151 km (251 749 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 2 October 2017 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2017 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 18:21 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠19.616°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-19.741° in its southern standstill point on 25 October 2017 at 18:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 19 October 2017 at 19:12 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.