Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02.
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 ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2022 after 25 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2022 at 13:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2022 at 22:57
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2022 at 14:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2022 at 04:08
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 282 / 1235
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 282 of Meeus index or 1235 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes. It is 49 minutes longer 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 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠299.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 29 October 2022 at 14:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 November 2022 at 06:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 404 366 km
The Moon is 404 366 km (251 261 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 924 km (251 608 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 8 November 2022 at 06:08 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 November 2022 at 16:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 14:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.497°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2022. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.471° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 26 November 2022 at 08:28.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 23 November 2022 at 22:57 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.
