Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 15 November 2024 at 21:29.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1896"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1942".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2024 after 26 days on 15 December 2024 at 09:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 November 2024 at 01:28
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 December 2024 at 06:21
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 December 2024 at 15:27
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 December 2024 at 09:02
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 307 / 1260
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 307 of Meeus index or 1260 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.3°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2024 at 11:18 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 November 2024 at 11:56 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 378 092 km
The Moon is 378 092 km (234 935 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 315 km (251 851 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 12 November 2024 at 15:59 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 November 2024 at 21:31 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 10:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.522°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.452° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 2 December 2024 at 22:31.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 1 December 2024 at 06:21 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.
