Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 24 November 2026 at 14:53.
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 ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1944".
Beaver Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2026 after 27 days on 24 December 2026 at 01:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 December 2026 at 06:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2026 at 00:52
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2026 at 05:43
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 December 2026 at 01:28
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 332 / 1285
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 332 of Meeus index or 1285 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠129.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.4°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 25 November 2026 at 20:58 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 December 2026 at 06:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 471 km
The Moon is 363 471 km (225 850 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 421 km (252 538 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 17 November 2026 at 11:49 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 November 2026 at 03:34 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 02:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.645°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.602° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 December 2026 at 15:27.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 9 December 2026 at 00:52 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.
