Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 75% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 7 October 2025 at 03:47.

Hunter Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2025 after 25 days on 5 November 2025 at 13:19.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1923".

Lunation 318 / 1271

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 318 of Meeus index or 1271 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠127.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠127.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.8°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 8 October 2025 at 12:36 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 October 2025 at 23:31 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 365 253 km

The Moon is 365 253 km (226 958 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 445 km (252 553 mi).

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 5 October 2025 at 09:20 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 October 2025 at 04:34 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 29 September 2025 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.599° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.550° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 October 2025 at 03:30 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 21 October 2025 at 12:25 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov