Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 26 days on 31 October 2020 at 14:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2020 at 00:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2020 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 October 2020 at 13:23
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 31 October 2020 at 14:49
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 256 / 1209
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 256 of Meeus index or 1209 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 3 October 2020 at 17:22 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 October 2020 at 23:46 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 403 561 km
The Moon is 403 561 km (250 761 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 913 km (221 775 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 October 2020 at 00:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 24 September 2020 at 19:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.458°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.613° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 October 2020 at 13:07 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 16 October 2020 at 19:31 in ♎ Libra 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.
