Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 11 October 2030 at 10:47.
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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1925".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2030 after 24 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 October 2030 at 14:50
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2030 at 20:17
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2030 at 11:56
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ 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.
Lunation 380 / 1333
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 380 of Meeus index or 1333 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2030. It is 8 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 position on
True anomaly ∠310.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠310.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 13:21. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 30 September 2030 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 28 October 2030 at 12:07 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 405 078 km
This apogee Moon is 405 078 km (251 704 mi) away from Earth. It is 330 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 631 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 15 October 2030 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2030 at 03:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 09:43 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.995°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.941° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 29 October 2030 at 20:28.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 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.
