Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 22 October 2029 at 09:28.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1793"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1931".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2029 after 25 days on 21 November 2029 at 04:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 October 2029 at 11:32
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 November 2029 at 04:24
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 13 November 2029 at 00:35
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 November 2029 at 04:03
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 368 / 1321
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 368 of Meeus index or 1321 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 10 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 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 3 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠348.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 23 October 2029 at 02:02 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 November 2029 at 23:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 399 853 km
The Moon is 399 853 km (248 457 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 900 km (221 767 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 12 October 2029 at 17:59 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 27 October 2029 at 05:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 12:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.659°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.613° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 November 2029 at 11:00.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 6 November 2029 at 04:24 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
