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Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 3 October 2028 at 16:25.
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 ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1891"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1891" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2028 after 22 days on 2 November 2028 at 09:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 October 2028 at 11:57
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 October 2028 at 02:57
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 25 October 2028 at 04:53
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 November 2028 at 09:17
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 355 / 1308
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 355 of Meeus index or 1308 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 48 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠2.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.5°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 1 October 2028 at 21:38 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 October 2028 at 00:41 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 379 104 km
The Moon is 379 104 km (235 564 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 010 km (223 078 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 26 September 2028 at 22:21 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 October 2028 at 11:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 9 October 2028 at 07:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.447°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.357° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 October 2028 at 21:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 18 October 2028 at 02:57 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.
