Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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 ♊ Gemini.
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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 28 November 2031 at 23:18.
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 ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1946".
Beaver Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2031 after 28 days on 28 December 2031 at 17:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 December 2031 at 03:20
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 December 2031 at 09:06
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 December 2031 at 00:00
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2031 at 17:33
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 394 / 1347
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 394 of Meeus index or 1347 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 56 minutes. It is 55 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠312.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠312.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.7°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 17 November 2031 at 22:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 3 December 2031 at 22:35 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 400 986 km
The Moon is 400 986 km (249 161 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 355 km (251 876 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 27 November 2031 at 14:01 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 December 2031 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 00:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.350°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.356° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 14 December 2031 at 04:45.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 14 December 2031 at 09:06 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.
