Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 30 October 2031 at 07:33.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1829"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1933".
Hunter Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2031 after 28 days on 28 November 2031 at 23:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 November 2031 at 07:02
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 14 November 2031 at 21:10
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 21 November 2031 at 14:45
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 November 2031 at 23:18
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 393 / 1346
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 393 of Meeus index or 1346 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 49 minutes. It is 53 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠281.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠281.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 22 October 2031 at 20:06 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2031 at 02:45 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 391 916 km
The Moon is 391 916 km (243 525 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 522 km (251 358 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 06:09 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 14 November 2031 at 15:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 20 October 2031 at 11:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.359°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.333° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2031 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 14 November 2031 at 21:10 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.
