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

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 11 October 2030 at 10:47.

Hunter Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2030 after 27 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.

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 ∠1784"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1924".

Lunation 380 / 1333

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 380 of Meeus index or 1333 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes and it is 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2030. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠310.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠310.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.4°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 30 September 2030 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 October 2030 at 13:21 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 401 888 km

The Moon is 401 888 km (249 722 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 078 km (251 704 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 1 October 2030 at 22:00 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 October 2030 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 2 October 2030 at 13:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.097° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.995° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 October 2030 at 09:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 26 October 2030 at 20:17 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