Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 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 19 November 2021 at 08:58.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1943".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2021 after 27 days on 19 December 2021 at 04:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 27 November 2021 at 12:28
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2021 at 07:43
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 December 2021 at 01:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 December 2021 at 04:36
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 270 / 1223
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 270 of Meeus index or 1223 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes. It is 22 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 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠342.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 02:14. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 5 November 2021 at 22:23 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 4 December 2021 at 10:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 406 276 km
This apogee Moon is 406 276 km (252 448 mi) away from Earth. It is 868 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 433 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 19 November 2021 at 17:59 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 December 2021 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 8 November 2021 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.328°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.342° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2021 at 22:43 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 4 December 2021 at 07:43 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
