Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 16 November 2019 Saturday is Waning Gibbous, 18 days old Moon is in Cancer.

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Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.

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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 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1940".

Beaver Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2019 after 25 days on 12 December 2019 at 05:12.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 18 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.

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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

9 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 November 2019 at 07:54 in ♎ Libra.

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Distance to Moon 376 634 km

The Moon is 376 634 km (234 030 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 721 km (227 870 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 08:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 29 November 2019 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

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New draconic month

At 08:48 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.

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Moon at northern standstill

At 13:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.151°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.200° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 29 November 2019 at 10:36.

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Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 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.

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