Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 12 November 2019 at 13:34.
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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1880"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1880" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2019 after 26 days on 12 December 2019 at 05:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 November 2019 at 21:11
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 November 2019 at 15:06
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 4 December 2019 at 06:58
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 12 December 2019 at 05:12
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 245 / 1198
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 245 of Meeus index or 1198 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 27 minutes. It is 2 hours and 41 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 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠28.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠28.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.7°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 7 November 2019 at 08:37 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2019 at 07:54 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 381 276 km
The Moon is 381 276 km (236 914 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 721 km (227 870 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 1 November 2019 at 21:40 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 November 2019 at 08:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 2 November 2019 at 00:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.047°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.151° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 November 2019 at 13:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 26 November 2019 at 15:06 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.
