Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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 ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.
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 ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2030 after 27 days on 9 December 2030 at 22:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2030 at 08:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 November 2030 at 06:46
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 1 December 2030 at 22:57
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 9 December 2030 at 22:40
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 381 / 1334
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 381 of Meeus index or 1334 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes. It is 16 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.8°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2030 at 12:07 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 November 2030 at 05:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 459 km
The Moon is 405 459 km (251 941 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 993 km (252 272 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 11 November 2030 at 18:45 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 25 November 2030 at 13:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
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 16:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.904°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2030. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.903° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 November 2030 at 06:20.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 25 November 2030 at 06:46 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.
