Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and getting smaller. The 19 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 28 October 2023 at 20:24.
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 ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1812"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1934".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 24 days on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2023 at 08:37
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 13 November 2023 at 09:27
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 November 2023 at 10:50
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2023 at 09:16
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 294 / 1247
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 294 of Meeus index or 1247 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 294 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than next lunation 295 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠232.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠269.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 26 October 2023 at 02:53 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 November 2023 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 395 528 km
Moon is 395 528 km (245 770 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 569 km (251 388 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 28 October 2023 at 03:14 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 11 November 2023 at 08:49 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 05:12 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.288°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.238° in its southern standstill point on 16 November 2023 at 14:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 13 November 2023 at 09:27 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.