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Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 13 October 2019 at 21:08.
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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1914"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1927".
Hunter Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2019 after 23 days on 12 November 2019 at 13:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2019 at 12:39
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 October 2019 at 03:38
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2019 at 10:23
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 12 November 2019 at 13:34
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 244 / 1197
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 244 of Meeus index or 1197 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠11.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠11.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.3°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 10 October 2019 at 18:29 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 October 2019 at 10:41 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 374 488 km
The Moon is 374 488 km (232 696 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 316 km (224 511 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 07:28 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 1 November 2019 at 21:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 07:28 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.947°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.047° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 2 November 2019 at 00:33.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 28 October 2019 at 03:38 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
