Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 12 December 2019 at 05:12.
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 ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1891"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1891" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2020 after 28 days on 10 January 2020 at 19:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 19 December 2019 at 04:57
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 December 2019 at 05:13
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 3 January 2020 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 January 2020 at 19:21
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 246 / 1199
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 246 of Meeus index or 1199 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.6°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 5 December 2019 at 04:09 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 18 December 2019 at 20:30 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 378 964 km
The Moon is 378 964 km (235 477 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 260 km (230 069 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 14:15 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 December 2019 at 13:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 14:15 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 20:57 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.226°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2019. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.227° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 26 December 2019 at 20:11.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 26 December 2019 at 05:13 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
